Library / English Dictionary

COMMONER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who holds no title

Synonyms:

common man; common person; commoner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commoner" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commoner"):

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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