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commoner

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com·mon·er  (km-nr)
n.
1. One of the common people.
2. A person without noble rank or title.

commoner
Noun
a person who does not belong to the nobility
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.commonercommoner - a person who holds no title
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
Translations
Spanish commoner [ˈkɔmənəʳ] nplebeyo/a
French commoner [ˈkɔmənəʳ] nroturier/ière
German commoner [ˈkɔmənəʳ] common nBürgerliche(r) f(m)
Italian commoner [ˈkɔmənəʳ] ncittadino/a (non nobile)

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(still to the commoner, always to the commoner) pa- tience, meanness of spirit, non-resistance under op- pression; and she introduced heritable ranks and aristocracies, and taught all the Christian populations of the earth to bow down to them and worship them.
The duel with knives in a dark room was once a commoner feature of Southwestern life than it is likely to be again.
Our conversations have, I think, made sufficiently clear to you the tenor of my life and purposes: a tenor unsuited, I am aware, to the commoner order of minds.
 
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