third estate

1. 1.

   the common people

   SynonymsCommons

   Broaderestate of the realm

   United Kingdom · France

Questions about third estate

What does third estate mean?

third estate means "the common people".

What is another word for third estate?

Close synonyms include Commons. 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 third estate a common word?

third estate 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.