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COMMON PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common person mean? 

COMMON PERSON (noun)
  The noun COMMON PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who holds no titleplay

  Familiarity information: COMMON PERSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMON PERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who holds no title

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

common man; common person; commoner

Hypernyms ("common person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common person"):

bourgeois; burgher (a member of the middle class)

cipher; cypher; nobody; nonentity (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))

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)


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