CROWD    群眾

LARGE GROUP of PEOPLE IN ONE PLACE.
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Modern Chinese Criteria
群眾 is the general modern word for the masses. 廣大群眾 is a politicised propaganda term for the masses. 大眾 公眾 民眾 萬眾 千夫 (lit) is an old-fashioned way of referring to the masses. 眾生 萬姓 人民群眾 人民大眾 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • GROUP　CATEGORY of PEOPLE OR THINGS which COOPERATE, MUTUALLY RESEMBLE OR are TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE. (anc: 16/0, child: 19)
  • CATEGORY　ABSTRACT CONCEPT REFERRING TYPICALLY to MANY THINGS with RESEMBLING FEATURES. (anc: 15/0, child: 3)
  • CONCEPT　ABSTRACT DEFINED IDEA of OBJECTS of THOUGHT. (anc: 14/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 13.19

  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 304

    369. Lege (inducta dictione) numerum, quae male ex sequenti versu irrepserat turbam.

    -- Loco posita. F., loci positu. C. Fronto: Turbam angustus locus facit.

    ]

    369. Inter Multitudinem et numerum. Multitudo numero fit, turba loco posita. Possunt enim pauci in angusto turbam facere.

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    CROWD

    grex refers to an unstructured crowd.

    turba refers to a disorderly crowd

    globus refers to a thick tight crowd thronging together like a ball.

    • Words (5 items)

    眾  zhòng OC: tjuŋs MC: tɕuŋ 30 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 群/GROUP The current general term for a group is qún 群.

      Syntactic words
    • nmultitudes; the crowd of people
    • nm:post-N zhīa group of NCH
    • npost-NN=humcrowd of Ns; entourage of N;
    • v[adN]N=humthe subject of being many> the crowd, the many people; the mulitudes of the people; the hoi polloi
    有眾  yǒu zhòng OC: ɢʷɯʔ tjuŋs MC: ɦɨu tɕuŋ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPthe crowd
    • NPpluralthe crowd
    頻頻  pín pín OC: bin bin MC: bin bin 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialthose who form part of the milling crowd
    師  shī OC: sril MC: ʂi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncrowd
    群眾  qún zhòng OC: ɡlun tjuŋs MC: gi̯un tɕuŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcrowds of people