Definitions for rabble
ˈræb əlrab·ble

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mob, rabble, routnoun

   a disorderly crowd of people

2. rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtailnoun

   disparaging terms for the common people

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. rabblenoun

   A mob; collectively, commoners; a disorderly group.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RABBLEnoun

   A tumultuous croud; an assembly of low people.

   Etymology: rabula, Lat. rabulari, low Lat.

   Countrymen, will ye relent, and yield to mercy,
   Or let a rabble lead you to your deaths? William Shakespeare.

   Go bring the rabble here to this place. William Shakespeare.

   Of these his several ravishments, betrayings, and stealing away of men’s wives, came in all those ancient fables, and all that rabble of Grecian forgeries. Walter Raleigh.

   The better sort abhors scurrility,
   And often censures what the rabble like. Wentworth Dillon.

   That profane, atheistical, epicurean rabble, whom the whole nation so rings of, are not the wisest men in the world. Robert South, Sermons.

   To gratify the barbarous audience, I gave them a short rabble scene, because the mob are represented by Plutarch and Polybius with the same character of baseness and cowardice. John Dryden, Cleomenes. Preface to.

   In change of government,
   The rabble rule their great oppressors fate,
   Do sov’reign justice and revenge the state. Dryden.

   His enemies have been only able to make ill impressions upon the low and ignorant rabble, and to put the dregs of the people in a ferment. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 24.

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1. rabble

   Rabble refers to a disorganized or disorderly crowd of people; often used to describe a mob or a crowd engaging in some kind of protest or public disturbance. It can sometimes carry a negative connotation, suggesting the people involved are from a lower social class or are behaving in a chaotic or unruly manner.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rabblenoun

   an iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling

2. Rabbleverb

   to stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron

3. Rabbleverb

   to speak in a confused manner

4. Rabbleverb

   a tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng

5. Rabbleverb

   a confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter

6. Rabbleadjective

   of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar

7. Rabbleverb

   to insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate

8. Rabbleverb

   to utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence

9. Rabbleverb

   to rumple; to crumple

10. Etymology: [Probably named from the noise made by it (see Rabble, v. i.) cf. D. rapalje rabble, OF. & Prov. F. rapaille.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rabble

   rab′l, n. a disorderly, noisy crowd: a mob: the lowest class of people.—adj. disorderly.—v.i. to utter nonsense.—v.t. (Scot.) to mob.—ns. Rabb′lement, a tumultuous crowd of low people; Rabb′ling (Scot.), the act of assaulting in a disorderly manner, mobbing. [Allied to Old Dut. rabbelen, to gabble, Prov. Ger. rabbeln.]

2. Rabble

   rab′l, n. an iron bar used in puddling.—v.t. to stir with a rabble.—n. Rabb′ler. [O. Fr. roable (Fr. râble)—L. rutabulum, a poker.]

Matched Categories

1. • Crowd
   • Folk

Anagrams for rabble »

1. barbel

2. labber

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of rabble in a Sentence

1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

2. Epicurus:

   I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

3. Dwayne Palmer:

   He joked around a lot. He was the life of the family, he wasn't a perfect person, but certainly not somebody that's a rabble-rouser, fighting, starting trouble or anything like that. He was a loving person.

4. Sir Thomas Browne:

   There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rabble
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rabble
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=rabble
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rabble
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=rabble