canaille

English · Français · Deutsch · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

canaille

/kəˈnaɪ/
/kəˈneɪl/

Rhymes with -aɪ, -eɪl

noun canailles

collective, countable The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be was
Similar: canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, commonage, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi
Canada, uncountable Shorts or inferior flour.

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"canaille." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/canaille. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

canaille. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/canaille

Chicago

"canaille." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/canaille.

BibTeX

@misc{canaille_2026,
  title = {canaille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/canaille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}