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COMMON PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who holds no title
Synonyms:
common man; common person; commoner
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common person"):
bourgeois; burgher (a member of the middle class)
cipher; cypher; nobody; nonentity (a person of no influence)
everyman (the ordinary person)
Joe Bloggs; Joe Blow; John Doe; man in the street (a hypothetical average man)
layman; layperson; secular (someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person)
pleb; plebeian (one of the common people)
prole; proletarian; worker (a member of the working class (not necessarily employed))
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
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