mob – English noun declension

English noun forms of mob

Noun: mob
Singularmob
Pluralmobs

Sample Sentences

  • Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. [February 13, 1788, James Madison, Jr., Federalist No. 55]
  • See also: Mob (the masses)
  • A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters. [1715 May 31 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 44. Friday, May 21. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:]
  • Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.] [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 11:]
  • The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group. [2004, Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury, A Mob of Kangaroos, Heinemann Library, page 9:]
  • There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here! [2024, Tylissa Elisara, Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky, Hachette Australia:]
  • Sex difference in size is so marked, that one familiar with the animals, can easily pick out the males in a mob when some distance away. [1931, Bulletin, New York Zoological Society, page 34:]
  • Without a second's delay another great rushing comes nearer. "By Jove! a mob of emus," says the old hunter. [1886, Percy Clarke, The "new Chum" in Australia, Or, The Scenery, Life, and Manners of Australians in Town and Country, page 218:]
  • In the gated area nearest the barn and the pond, there were goats and sheep, llamas and ponies, and a mob of emus. [2015, Doug Geeting, Running with the Mob: Stories About the Emus on the Farm:]
  • Not even Wellington's horse rode with greater precipitancy upon Napoleon's troops at Waterloo than Dick advanced upon the mob of emus. [1925, Joseph Bowes, The Fur-hunters in Australian Wilds, Humphrey Milford:]
  • The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face. [1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:]
  • The Greeks, displaying a characteristic often a mark of defeated armies, pursued a 'scorched earth' policy toward western Anatolia... The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs. [1979, P. K. Jensen, “The Greco-Turkish war, 1920–1922”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 10, number 4, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 563:]
  • What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but … [1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books:]
  • See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
  • There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry. [2011 March 10, Allan Clarke, W.A. through Noongar eyes:]
  • There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that. [2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian:]

Etymology

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). See: Latin Nouns 'mobile'.

Verbs referencing "mob"

German Nouns Mob, Swedish Nouns mobb.