Mob

See also: mob, MOB, and -mob

English

Etymology

From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.

Proper noun

Mob

  1. The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
  2. The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or (yet more specifically) the rabble thereof, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
    tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English mob.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɔp/
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Noun

Mob m (strong, genitive Mobs, plural Mobs)

  1. mob (unruly group of people)

Declension
Declension of Mob [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Mob die Mobs
genitive eines des Mobs der Mobs
dative einem dem Mob den Mobs
accusative einen den Mob die Mobs

Further reading
  • “Mob” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Mob” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Mob” in Duden online
  • “Mob” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Mob on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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