dân đen
Definition
- Noun:
- Common people, the masses: "dân đen" refers to ordinary people, the general populace, often perceived as having low social status or little power.
- Pejorative term for the lower class: Historically used in a somewhat derogatory or archaic sense to describe the common run of people, the rabble, or the mob.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Trong xã hội phong kiến, dân đen thường phải chịu nhiều áp bức. (In feudal society, the common people often suffered much oppression.)
- Những chính sách đó chỉ làm lợi cho quan lại, còn dân đen thì chẳng được gì. (Those policies only benefited the mandarins, while the common folk got nothing.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is considered archaic (cũ) and carries a negative connotation (nghĩa xấu). It is rarely used in modern, respectful discourse about the populace. Contemporary terms are more neutral.
- It often implies a contrast with the ruling class, aristocracy, or educated elite.
- Sự phân biệt giữa tầng lớp quý tộc và dân đen ngày xưa rất rõ rệt. (The distinction between the nobility and the common rabble in the old days was very clear.)
Variants and Related Words
- Dân chúng (n): The people, the public. (Neutral term)
- Dân thường (n): Ordinary citizens, commoners. (Neutral term)
- Bình dân (n): Common people, populace. (Neutral to slightly formal)
- Thường dân (n): Civilians, common people. (Neutral term)
Synonyms
- Common people: Người dân thường, quần chúng.
- Populace: Dân chúng.
- Mob, rabble: Đám đông, tầng lớp thấp kém. (These English synonyms share the pejorative tone of "dân đen").
Related Phrases/Idioms
- Thân phận dân đen: The lot/fate of a commoner.
- Ông ấy hiểu rõ thân phận dân đen trong xã hội cũ. (He understood the lot of a commoner in the old society well.)
- Dân đen con đỏ: A phrase pairing "common people" with "innocent children," sometimes used to refer broadly to the innocent masses.
- Nhà vua phải lo cho dân đen con đỏ. (The king must care for the common people and innocent children.)
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(cũ) Mob, rabbel, common run of the people
