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GREAT UNWASHED

Specialty Definition: GREAT UNWASHED

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Literature

Great Unwashed (The). The artisan class. Burke first used the compound, but Sir Walter Scott popularised it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: GREAT UNWASHED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commonalty

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GREAT UNWASHED

Specialty definitions using "GREAT UNWASHED": Linsey-woolsy Million. (references)

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Commercial Usage: GREAT UNWASHED

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Books

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Expression: GREAT UNWASHED

Expression using "GREAT UNWASHED": the great unwashed. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GREAT UNWASHED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

great unwashed

2
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Modern Translation: GREAT UNWASHED

Language Translations for "GREAT UNWASHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

тълпата (the great unwashed), масите (commonalty, masses, populace, the great unwashed, the masses, the million). (various references)

   

German

  

der pöbel (the great unwashed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatgray ashedunway

   

Turkish

  

ayak takımı (demos, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, lowlife, mob, populace, the great unwashed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GREAT UNWASHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-h-n-r-s-t-u-w"

-3 letters: guaranteed, guarantees, headwaters, unwreathed, unwreathes.

-4 letters: adherents, daughters, denatures, dungarees, enswathed, estranged, graduates, guarantee, guardants, harangued, harangues, headgates, headgears, headwater, nauseated, neatherds, runagates, sauntered, stagehand, underages, undereats, unearthed, unswathed, unthreads, unwreathe, urethanes, waterages, watershed, wheatears.

-5 letters: adherent, answered, arethusa, arsenate, awardees, aweather, daughter, daunters, denature, dentures, deranges, dewaters, dragnets, draughts, dungaree, eastward, enswathe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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