俗ぞく衆しゅう

noun

the masses; the common people; the crowd

A somewhat literary or formal term for ordinary people collectively, often with a nuance of the unenlightened or vulgar crowd. Not an everyday word for 'people'.

• 彼かれの思し想そうは俗ぞく衆しゅうには理り解かいされなかった。

  His ideas were not understood by the masses.

• 俗ぞく衆しゅうの意い見けんに流ながされず、自じ分ぶんの道みちを進すすむべきだ。

  You should follow your own path without being swayed by the opinion of the crowd.