common people

1. 1.

   people in general (often used in the plural)

   “they're just country folk”

   “folks around here drink moonshine”

   “the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next”

   Synonymsfolkfolks

   Broaderpeople

   Narrowercountry peoplegentlefolkgrass rootshome folkrabble

Questions about common people

What does common people mean?

common people means "people in general (often used in the plural)".

What is another word for common people?

Close synonyms include folk, folks. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common people a common word?

common people is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.