Polloi

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of hoi polloi. alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only

    "From my vantage point in this teeming city it appears that Father—feeling, I suspect, that it was ordained—accepts Mr. Coolidge’s victory too complacently. His rural retreat is untouched by the temper of the polloi."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Potloi. alt-of, alternative

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"Semantic equivalence is protean as well as fuzzy: what hoi polloi find equivalent may to cognoscenti be quite distinct."

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