Commoner synonyms

kŏm'ə-nər

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plebeian
Plebeian is defined as relating to the common people or lacking in manners.
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little man
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peasant
(strategy games) a worker unit
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bourgeoise
A female bourgeois
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common person
a person who holds no title
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commonality
Such a shared attribute or characteristic
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staler
(Law) Having lost legal force or effect through lack of use or action, as a claim or lien
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citizen (related)
A civilian, as opposed to a soldier, police officer etc.
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pleb
(Informal) plebeian
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common-man
The average citizen, as contrasted with the social, political or cultural elite.
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coarser
Lacking in delicacy or refinement:
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triter
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
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plainer
An extensive, relatively level area of land. Plains are present on all continents except Antarctica and are most often located in the interior regions. Because they can occur at almost any altitude or latitude, plains can be humid and forested, semiarid and grass-covered, or arid.
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simpler
Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
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lowlier
Having or suited for a low rank or position.
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humbler
Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly:
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homelier
(UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
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meaner
Low in quality, value, or importance; paltry; poor; inferior
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jointer
Involving both houses of a legislature:
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baser
Inferior in quality
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shabbier
Despicable; mean:
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tidier
(Informal) Fairly good; satisfactory
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fairer
Of moderately good size
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decenter
Reasonably good; adequate
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nobler (antonym)
Having or showing high moral qualities or ideals, or greatness of character; lofty
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higher (antonym)
(--- Informal) Excited or euphoric:
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rarer (antonym)
Excellent; extraordinary:
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duller (related)
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
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better (related)
Attractive; handsome:
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poorer (related)
The definition of poor is having little money or belongings, or lacking something.
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nobility (related)
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landed-gentry (related)
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gentry (related)
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nobleman (related)
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grazier (related)
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bourgeois
An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.
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civilian
A person who is not an employee of the government:
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member of the rank and file
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plebe
The definition of a plebe is a new freshman or cadet, especially at a military training academy.
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student
An attentive observer:
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Used in plural: common
The common people.
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commonalty
A group of things having similar characteristics
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crowd
(Informal) A group of people having something in common; set; clique
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hoi polloi
(Proscribed) The elite.
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mass
A musical setting of parts of the mass.
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mob
The mass of common people; the populace.
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populace
The inhabitants of a nation.
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public
The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
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ruck
The multitude or mass of undistinguished, ordinary people or things; common run
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third estate
(Originally) The caste of commoners in France prior to 1789.
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over (related)
(Cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
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exhibitioner
(Brit.) A student who is awarded an exhibition
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passman
(UK) One who passes a university degree, but without honours.
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questionist
(Obsolete) An inquisitive person, a questioner.
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sizar
(UK) At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (study grant); originally in return for serving other (paying) students.
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scarcer (antonym)
Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
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landholder (related)
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optime
(at Cambridge University) A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in Mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.
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Commoner Sentence Examples

  • The table on the opposite page shows the uses of a few of the commoner signs.

  • He was admitted to the Middle Temple in February 1637, and in May be became a fellow commoner of Balliol College, Oxford.

  • In fact, five scholars and perhaps one commoner left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election.

  • In 1721 he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied law at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar.

  • But Gibbon's friends in a few weeks discovered that the new tutor preferred the pleasures of London to the instruction of his pupils, and in this perplexity decided to send him prematurely to Oxford, where he was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, 3rd April 1752.

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