common people
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1.3
- noun
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gente
- Yes, and what I most admire is the way you've captured the voice of the common people.
- elite and common people
But they are not just like imposing it on the common people.
- But they are not just like imposing it on the common people.
- But think about common people, residents versus commercial real estate owners.
- It's very inside baseball niche jargon industry term that sort of common people, laymen don't know or understand.
- And then we have the common people who have been disvalued by this, this master morality.
- And one of the things I thought about was that the how common people taking lessons were.
- As a matter of fact, that's for the common people or that's that's, you know, base or, or harmful.
Examples
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I recall you spoke out in Parliament for the rights... and privileges of common people.
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During the festival, the common people celebrated with joy and unity.
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But what of the common people?
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Perhaps you no longer care for the common people.
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A whole world full of common people, all of them born, all of them going to die.
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Look at him over there, drinking and playing cards with the common people.
Fiction book (1994) -
To see what life is really like for the common people.
Fiction book (1998) -
But Luther wants common people to be able to read it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Reproaching the government, he charged that "this government does not care about the common people..."
Academic text (1993) -
I searched for heroes while writing my book on World War One, but ended up admiring the common people and not their political leaders.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A group of people who share the same culture or background
∞
1.0
People in general, not a small private group
31
4.2
A person without a noble title who is an ordinary member of society
18
6.0
The class of ordinary people often represented in parliament
8
1.0
People in general, often used when talking to a group
4
9.0
People in a society who are not rich or powerful
2
2.3
Ordinary people in a society who are not rich or powerful
1
7.2
Ordinary people who are not nobles or rulers
1
9.9
Ordinary people often seen as not cultured
Ordinary people who are not rulers or priests, especially in old times
Ordinary people in a society
Antonyms
How Elite
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4.7
15
3.4
516
2.0
16
1.3
69
2.8
2
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'ordinary people' is directly compositional from 'common' (ordinary/shared) + 'people' (members of society); the adjective+noun structure yields the intended sense without idiomatic shift. This construction and sense are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase common people comes from the idea of common land that everyone in a village used. The people who used that land were ordinary villagers, not the rich or powerful, so common people means 'ordinary people' rather than the elite.