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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plebeian |
| Synonyms: | bourgeois, bourgeoisie, citizen, civilian, peasant |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | citizen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person native of country |
| Synonyms: | John/Jane Q. Public, aborigine, burgess, burgher, civilian, commoner, cosmopolite, denizen, dweller, freeman/woman, householder, inhabitant, member of body politic, member of community, national, native, naturalized person, occupant, resident, settler, subject, taxpayer, townsperson, urbanite, villager, voter |
| Notes: | a denizen is someone who inhabits a particular place while a citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state, city, town, or other political community |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant |
| Main Entry: | civilian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonmilitary person |
| Synonyms: | citizen, civ, civvie, commoner, noncombatant, private citizen, subject |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lower class |
| Synonyms: | common people, commonalty, commoner, peasant, person in the street, pleb, plebe, proletarian, rank and file |
| Antonyms: | aristocrat, noble, patrician, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | yeoman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worker |
| Synonyms: | assistant, attendant, churl, clerk, commoner, farmer, freeholder, servant, subordinate |
| Main Entry: | mediocrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mediocre person |
| Synonyms: | cipher, commoner, nonentity, upstart |
| Main Entry: | commonality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | common, commonalty, commoner, hoi polloi, pleb, plebeian, populace, public, the masses, third estate |
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