Definition of Common man

1. Noun. A person who holds no title.


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

common lavenders
common law
common lettuce
common lilac
common limb of membranous semicircular ducts
common limpet
common logarithm
common loon
common loons
common louse
common lynx
common mackerel
common madia
common maidenhair
common mallow
common man (current term)
common marigold
common marmoset
common marmosets
common matrimony vine
common measure
common men
common meter
common migraine
common milkwort
common minnow
common minnows
common mood
common moonseed
common moonwort

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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