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Definition of Common people

1. Noun. People in general (often used in the plural). "The common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common People

Literary usage of Common people

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public, more than that of people of some ..."

2. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1858)
"The-great criterion of the state of -the -common state of the people is the amount of their wages; ^and common people. as £our ..."

3. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"The great criterion of the state of the common people is the amount of their wages; and, as four fifths of the common people were, in the seventeenth ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These reforms led to the awakening of a sense of nationality both in the educated classes and the common people; and when in 1813 Napoleon returned defeated ..."

6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"74. t There were two verses at that time in the mouths of all the common people, which, in spite of prejudice, one cannot but regard with nomo degree of ..."

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