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Definition of Common man
1. Noun. A person who holds no title.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Bourgeois, Burgher, Cipher, Cypher, Nobody, Nonentity, Everyman, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, Man In The Street, Layman, Layperson, Secular, Pleb, Plebeian, Prole, Proletarian, Worker, Rustic
Definition of Common man
1. Noun. The average citizen, as contrasted with the social, political or cultural elite. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Man
Literary usage of Common man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"The slave could be commanded to do all sorts of things for his master that the
quasi-free common man would not do so willingly because of his attachment to ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The " common man," if he thought at all on the matter, might be excused if ...
They read as if they were addressed to the "common man" and appealed to his ..."
3. The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook by James Harvey Robinson (1912)
"... HISTORY FOR THE common man SHOULD a student of the past be asked what he
regarded as the most original and far-reaching discovery of modern times, ..."
4. The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson (1919)
"... CHAPTER HI THE REVOLT OF THE common man ^ PRACTICALLY all the farmers in the
South, like those \ of the West, were chronically in debt, ..."
5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1898)
"... common, Man., ii, p. 401 ; humilis—West Wickham Wood, Man.,ii, p. ... common,
Man., ii, p. 434; arcuata—West Wickham, Man., ii, p. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"The greatness of Lincoln was that of a common man raised to a high dimension.
The possibility, still more the existence, of such a man is itself a ..."
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