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common people - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

folk, folks

people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

country people, countryfolk - people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics

gentlefolk - people of good family and breeding and high social status

grass roots - the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

home folk - folks from your own home town

ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble - disparaging terms for the common people

pleb, plebeian - one of the common people

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