Synonyms for hoi polloi
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hoi puh-loi |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔɪ pəˈlɔɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for hoi polloi
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
- 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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