COMMON PEOPLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

People in general (often used in the plural)

Example:

the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next

Synonyms:

common people; folk; folks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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)