man in the street

Questions about man in the street

What is another word for man in the street?

It depends which man in the street you mean. In the sense “a hypothetical average man”, the synonyms are John Doe, Joe Blow, Joe Bloggs. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of man in the street?

WordNet records no antonym for man in the street. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for man in the street come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of man in the street

• Full entry for man in the streetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for man in the streetWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.