mob

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
2. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
3. (collective, noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
4. (collective, noun) A group of kangaroos.
5. (collective, noun) A flock of emus.
6. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
7. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

Verb

1. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
2. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

Verb

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Sinonieme

crowd

throng

rabble

gang

group

pack

swarm

multitude

flock

them

band

collective plural

troop

drove

jam

riffraff

herd

family

👪

horde

bunch

mafia

tribe

set

rout

pile

pride

besiege

ring

💍

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

big

these here

disorderly crowd

surround

syndicate

company

school

🏫

crime syndicate

pod

bevy

knot

🪢

army

huddle

masses

beset

hem in

circle

⭕

gaggle

battery

🔋

covey

concourse

Vertalings

Pöbel

foule

όχλος

Mob

muchedumbre

multidão

chusma

turba

menigte

folla

Meute

Gesindel

turba

cohue

ayaktakımı

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mɒb/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: mob

In summary

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by Richard Bartle for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.