| NOUN | group | common people, folk, folks | people in general (often used in the plural) |
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| Meaning | People in general (often used in the plural). | |
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| Example | "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" | |
| Synonyms | folk, folks | |
| Members | plebeian, pleb | One of the common people |
| Narrower | country people, countryfolk | People raised in or living in a rural environment |
| gentlefolk | People of good family and breeding and high social status | |
| grass roots | The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) | |
| home folk | folks from your own home / home town | |
| rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail | disparaging terms for the common people | |
| Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
| Spanish | gente, plebe, pueblo, vulgo | |
| Catalan | plebs, poble, vulgar | |
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