a common person, as distinguished from one with rank, status, etc.

British .

any person ranking below a peer; a person without a title of nobility.

a member of the House of Commons.

(at Oxford and some other universities) a student who pays for his or her commons and other expenses and is not supported by any scholarship or foundation.

a person who has a joint right in common land.

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bourgeois , bourgeoisie , civilian , peasant , citizen , common , commonality , crowd , hoi polloi , mass , mob , pleb , plebeian , populace , public , ruck , third estate , plebe , student