hoi polloi
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌhɔɪ pəˈlɔɪ/
- The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
- 1953 January, District of Columbia Library Association in Washington, D.C. Libraries, volume 24, number 1, page 1
- But what, pray tell, is a “librarian”? Consult the same infallible source and you will learn: “One who has the care or charge of a library.” And where does that leave the most of us, hoi great unwashed polloi who have neither the “care” nor the “charge” of a library?
- 2000 March 6, 9:00am, Arthur T. Murray ↗, sci.econ ↗ (Usenet newsgroup), “Proletarians of the World Wide Web, unite against ICANN! ↗”, Message ID: <38c3d0ce@news.victoria.tc.ca>#1/1 ↗
- Holding the meeting in Egypt is a Machiavellian way to look international but in reality to prevent hoi Interent polloi from attending the meeting.
- 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow 2011, page 59:
- Naturally, the anthropological society did not wish to share its business with hoi polloi, so Herr Hagenbeck kindly offered them a private viewing.
- 1953 January, District of Columbia Library Association in Washington, D.C. Libraries, volume 24, number 1, page 1
- (proscribed) The elite.
- (common people) the canaille, the common people, the great unwashed, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the peasantry (when used figuratively), the plebs, the proletariat (as a class), the rabble, the rank-and-file, the riffraff, the working class
- (elite) the elite
- French: plèbe, populace, vulgum pecus, commun des mortels
- German: Pöbel
- Portuguese: hoi polloi, plebe, gentalha
- Russian: ма́ссы
- Spanish: populacho, plebe
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