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polloi

polloi is the alternative form of hoi polloi.

polloi is the alternative form of Potloi.

Meaning of hoi polloi

Noun

hoi polloi pl (plural only)

  1. (collective, plural, plural-only) The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
    • The clientele is a select species of hoi polloi, intermixed with writers, painters and politicos and the more sophisticated American tourists.1942 April 5, Elizabeth Fagg, “Cafeteria in Mexico”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    elite
  2. (nonstandard, plural, plural-only, see Usage notes) The elite.
    • Our moral standards sway Like Mrs. Tanqueray, And we are theoretically Most aesthetically Eager to display The fact that we're aggressively And excessively Anxious to destroy All the snobbery And hob-nobbery Of the hoi-polloi.1934, Noël Coward, Play Parade, page 334

Meaning of Potloi

Noun

Potloi (plural Potlois)

  1. A Meitei traditional heavily ornamented cylindrical skirt, used by brides and dancers.
  2. A Meitei traditional death ceremony.

Phrases with polloi

Questions about polloi

What is polloi the alternative form of?
Polloi is the alternative form of hoi polloi.

Words near polloi in the dictionary

  1. Pollock Pines
  2. pollocked
  3. Pollockian
  4. pollocking
  5. pollocks
  6. polloi
  7. Pollok
  8. Polloks
  9. Pollokshaws
  10. Pollokshields
  11. pollotarian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polloi (page history and authors); hoi polloi (page history and authors); Potloi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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