commoner

/ˈkɑmənər/

/ˈkɒmənə/

Other forms: commoners

Definitions of commoner

1. noun

   a person who holds no title
   synonyms: common man, common person

   types:

   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

   coon

   an eccentric or undignified rustic

   countryman, ruralist

   a man who lives in the country and has country ways

   countrywoman

   a woman who lives in the country and has country ways

   dogsbody

   a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do

   bushwhacker, hillbilly

   a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person

   lay reader

   a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church

   bucolic, peasant, provincial

   a country person

   petit bourgeois

   a member of the lower middle class

   anti-intellectual, lowbrow, philistine

   a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

   pip-squeak, small fry, squirt

   someone who is small and insignificant

   redneck

   a poor White person in the southern United States

   jackanapes, lightweight, whippersnapper

   someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

   woodman, woodsman

   someone who lives in the woods

   bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel

   a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being