COMMON PEOPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common people mean?
• COMMON PEOPLE (noun)
The noun COMMON PEOPLE has 1 sense:
1. people in general (often used in the plural)
Familiarity information: COMMON PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COMMON PEOPLE (noun)
Meaning:
People in general (often used in the plural)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
common people; folk; folks
Context examples:
they're just country folk / folks around here drink moonshine / the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next
Hypernyms ("common people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "common people"):
pleb; plebeian (one of the common people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common people"):
country people; countryfolk (people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics)
gentlefolk (people of good family and breeding and high social status)
grass roots (the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity))
home folk (folks from your own home town)
rabble; ragtag; ragtag and bobtail; riffraff (disparaging terms for the common people)
