英语词汇“rabble”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rabble

/ˈrab(ə)l

noun

1A disorderly crowd; a mob: he was met by a rabble of noisy, angry youths...

The rest of his army is a miscellaneous rabble who have never seen war, and will run away when they hear the first shot fired.
‘Independence day has always been a noisy holiday celebrating the dizzying rabble of a populist uprising,’ he writes in his inimitable style.
A rabble gathers outside Whitechapel tube station at 2pm every Sunday afternoon, waits for the guide to make him/herself known, pays a fiver, then sets off to hear about the real history of the area.

Synonyms

mob, (disorderly) crowd, throng, gang, swarm, host, horde, pack, press, crush, jam, gathering, assemblage, multitude, mass, body, group

archaic rout

1.1 (the rabble) Ordinary people, especially when regarded as socially inferior or uncouth: the British feel no compunction about ushering the gentry into the coach and packing the rabble off to debtor’s prison...

There were a few middle-aged guys trying to keep the rabble under control.

Synonyms

the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd, the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs

2 rare A large group of butterflies: we arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies...

We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets.
Watching a rabble of butterflies virtually fill a six-story auditorium should be entertainment enough for adolescents not yet ruined by videogames, but Flight of the Butterflies in 3D has the added value of a good story.
Terminal 3 has a free movie theater, a koi pond, and an astounding "butterfly garden" where you wander through tropical plants in the company of a rabble of butterflies.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the senses 'string of meaningless words' and 'pack of animals'): perhaps related to dialect rabble 'to gabble'.

单词	rabble
释义	rabble /ˈrab(ə)l / noun 1A disorderly crowd; a mob: he was met by a rabble of noisy, angry youths... The rest of his army is a miscellaneous rabble who have never seen war, and will run away when they hear the first shot fired. ‘Independence day has always been a noisy holiday celebrating the dizzying rabble of a populist uprising,’ he writes in his inimitable style. A rabble gathers outside Whitechapel tube station at 2pm every Sunday afternoon, waits for the guide to make him/herself known, pays a fiver, then sets off to hear about the real history of the area. Synonyms mob, (disorderly) crowd, throng, gang, swarm, host, horde, pack, press, crush, jam, gathering, assemblage, multitude, mass, body, group archaic rout 1.1 (the rabble) Ordinary people, especially when regarded as socially inferior or uncouth: the British feel no compunction about ushering the gentry into the coach and packing the rabble off to debtor’s prison... There were a few middle-aged guys trying to keep the rabble under control. Synonyms the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd, the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs 2 rare A large group of butterflies: we arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies... We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets. Watching a rabble of butterflies virtually fill a six-story auditorium should be entertainment enough for adolescents not yet ruined by videogames, but Flight of the Butterflies in 3D has the added value of a good story. Terminal 3 has a free movie theater, a koi pond, and an astounding "butterfly garden" where you wander through tropical plants in the company of a rabble of butterflies. Origin Late Middle English (in the senses 'string of meaningless words' and 'pack of animals'): perhaps related to dialect rabble 'to gabble'. Rhymes babble, bedabble, dabble, drabble, gabble, grabble, scrabble
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