Synonyms for hoi polloi

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hoi puh-loi

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔɪ pəˈlɔɪ

Top 10 synonyms for hoi polloi

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Définition of hoi polloi

Origin : 1837, from Greek hoi polloi (plural) "the people," literally "the many" (plural of polys; see poly-). Used in Greek by Dryden (1668) and Byron (1822), in both cases preceded by the, even though Greek hoi means "the," a mistake repeated often by subsequent writers, who at least have the excuse of ignorance of Greek.

noun common people

Example sentences :

But where hoi polloi thinks that it gets the best of everything it is mistaken.
Extract from : « The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 » by Various

The book Im at work on is a deliberate attempt to pander to the depraved taste of hoi polloi.
Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various

And we must laugh at nothing and find it enchanting––and we must dance amid the hoi polloi and clap our hands for the encore too!
Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers

But esthetic beatitude can be obtained only by a few; it is not for the hoi polloi.
Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 » by Elbert Hubbard

I say as one 'Varsity man to another—we're not hoi polloi—could you lend me some money?
Extract from : « Letters from America » by Rupert Brooke

But these are placed upon the table down below, where hoi polloi and the lame, blind, and halt sit down and eat.
Extract from : « The Great White Tribe in Filipinia » by Paul T. Gilbert

The third was for the hoi polloi of the white race, and the fourth for the people of color whose color was more evident.
Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 » by Various

And what a Vandervent eats for breakfast makes snappy reading, I think you'd call it, for hoi polloi, eh?
Extract from : « Find the Woman » by Arthur Somers Roche

Hoi polloi had used another entrance by which to climb to the upper galleries.
Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The hoi polloi never make that mistake and they get a lot more out of life.
Extract from : « Affinities and Other Stories » by Mary Roberts Rinehard

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