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common person

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Noun1.common personcommon person - a person who holds no title          
common man, commoner
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
bourgeois, burgher - a member of the middle class
nobody, nonentity, cypher, cipher - 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); "workers of the world--unite!"
rustic - an unsophisticated country person


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It might," said the servile Pumblechook, putting down his untasted glass in a hurry and getting up again, "to a common person, have the appearance of repeating - but may I - ?
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Then they made it evident that they proposed that he, as a common person below the rank of officer should have the sole and undivided privilege of disposing of the body by dragging it to the water's edge.
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