Definition of commoner
Nouns
a person who holds no title
- Synonyms:
- common man, common person
- Examples:
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Philemon
(Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety
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bourgeois, burgher
a member of the middle class
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petit bourgeois
a member of the lower middle class
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cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity
a person of no influence
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pip-squeak, small fry, squirt
someone who is small and insignificant
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jackanapes, lightweight, whippersnapper
someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
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everyman
the ordinary person
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Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, man in the street
a hypothetical average man
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layman, layperson, secular
someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
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lay reader
a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church
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pleb, plebeian
one of the common people
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anti-intellectual, lowbrow, philistine
a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
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prole, proletarian, worker
a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
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dogsbody
a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do
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rustic
an unsophisticated country person
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coon
an eccentric or undignified rustic
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countryman, ruralist
a man who lives in the country and has country ways
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countrywoman
a woman who lives in the country and has country ways
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bushwhacker, hillbilly
a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
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bucolic, peasant, provincial
a country person
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cracker, redneck
a poor White person in the southern United States
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woodman, woodsman
someone who lives in the woods
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bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
Vocabulary Lists for commoner
George Orwell's "1984" Part 3 (comprehensive) »(2202 words)
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Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" Chapters 1-17 »(606 words)
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Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" »(270 words)
Vocabulary study list for Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun...
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