rout

¹rout

noun

Definition of ROUT

1

a great number of persons or creatures massed together <a great rout of rubberneckers had gathered around the scene of the accident>

Synonyms army, bike [chiefly Scottish], cram, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng

Related Words masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff; gaggle; heap, mountain, pile; jam, logjam

2

people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class <at first the protests were dismissed as nothing more than the idle doings of the restless rout>

Synonyms proletariat, rabblement, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, tag, rag, and bobtail (or tagrag and bobtail), trash, unwashed

Related Words dregs; commoners, commons, herd, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mob, multitude, people, plebeians, populace, public, rank and file; bourgeoisie, middle class, working class

Near Antonyms elect, establishment; gentlefolk (also gentlefolks), nobility, peerage

Antonyms A-list, aristocracy, elite, gentry, quality, society, upper class, upper crust