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The common people
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hoi polloi
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Wikipedia
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Hoi Polloi (1935) is the 10th short film released by Columbia Pictures starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges ( Moe Howard , Larry Fine and Curly Howard ). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ They had little faith that the hoi polloi would very soon be using computers. ▪ They helped keep the 3, 800 delegates and alternates, more than 90 percent white, from the hoi polloi .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The common people; the masses. (qualifier: Used with or without the definite article.) 2 (context proscribed English) The elite.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude , masses , mass , people ]
Usage examples of hoi polloi.
In early 2002, David Geffen, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and about one hundred other Malibu Marie Antoinettes erected chain-link fences to keep hoi polloi off the public beaches adjacent to their beachfront estates.
There was also a large ceremonial salt shaker, evidently a social marker separating the upper table from the hoi polloi even on a community occasion like this.