Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun the_great_unwashed

1 sense of the great unwashed

Sense 1
multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed -- (the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people")
       => group, grouping -- (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)