Crowd and Elite

Crowd

Crowd noun - The body of the community as contrasted with the elite.
Usage example: no national leader was ever more hated by the crowd

Elite is an antonym for crowd.

Nearby Words: crowded, crowding

Elite

Elite noun - The highest class in a society.
Usage example: the country's elite owned or controlled most of the wealth

Crowd is an antonym for elite.

Nearby Words: elitist, elitism

How words are described

old old crowd old elite
common common crowd common elite
popular popular crowd popular elite
small small crowd small elite
Other adjectives: bad, new, angry, fighting.

Both words in one sentence

  • Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E9 "Sweet and Elite" In with the In Crowd: Rarity's ascendance to Canterlot's elite is the focus of the episode.
  • Country Mouse Eventually, she finds a crowd of engineers (or, at least, elite socialites with tinkering hobbies) and spends the rest of the ball talking engines with them.
    Source: Country Mouse
  • Video Game / Exit Fate This is probably a natural consequence of deliberately choosing an army's elite soldiers purely on the basis of who stands out the most in a crowd of normal people.
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