Dictionary Definition
rabble
Noun
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
rabble- A mob; collectively, commoners; a disorderly group.
Translations
a mob; collectively, commoners; a disorderly
group
- Finnish: ihmisjoukko, rahvas italbrac collectively
- French: cohue , foule , (the commoners) la populace
- German: lärmende Menge
- Greek: όχλος (óchlos)
- Hebrew:
- Turkish: ayaktakımı
See also
Extensive Definition
rabble.ca is a Canadian website. Among other services,
it publishes journalism on a daily basis, primarily relating to
social
justice and progressive
politics. The site hosts babble, a politically-oriented Internet
forum, the rabble podcast network (RPN) and the
rabble reads book lounge. The site reports receiving roughly
300,000 unique visitors a month.
rabble.ca was launched in April 2001 by a group
of media activists including Mark Surman, Judy MacDonald and
journalist Judy Rebick,
in cooperation with the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Its debut coincided
with the anti-globalization
protests of that year at the
Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. In 2005, rabble.ca was
incorporated as its own non-profit. Since its founding, rabble.ca
has published works by many of Canada's most influential left
wing journalists, including Rick
Salutin, Naomi Klein,
Thomas
Walkom and Linda
McQuaig.
Rebick retired from rabble.ca in 2006 and was
replaced by publisher Kim Elliott. rabble.ca's editor is Derrick
O'Keefe, the books editor is Lisa Rundle and babble moderators
include Michelle Langlois and "Old Goat". In 2007, rabble.ca
launched a home on Second Life
on "Better World Island".
rabble in French: rabble
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
and bobtail, army, bourgeoisie, canaille, cluster, cohue, common ruck, commonalty, commoners, crowd, crush, deluge, dregs, dregs of society, flock, flood, galaxy, gang, heap, hoi polloi, horde, host, jam, legion, lower classes, many, mass, masses, mob, mod, multitude, other half,
outcasts, panoply, peasantry, people, polloi, populace, press, proletariat, public, rabblement, raff, rag, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, rank
and file, riffraff,
rout, ruck, scum, scurf, spate, swarm, tag, the great unwashed, throng, trash, unwashed, vermin