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commoners

NOUN
canaille
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But old resentments—over the burdens that fell on commoners, or how the wealthy and accomplished had been excluded from privileges—shaped grievances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Many Danish and Norwegian royals also send their children to public schools - and it helps that the three heirs to the Nordic thrones have all married commoners.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

It’s nice that Goop is generously tossing cake to the commoners by, among other things, featuring worthwhile non-profit organizations such as Women’s Health Access Matters, the Brooklyn Library’s Books Unbanned initiative and The Ocean Cleanup.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

Open is that egalitarian of majors, with commoners playing alongside royalty, amateurs alongside mega-millionaires, and obscure underdogs alongside household names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Jomon villages and cemeteries do not consist of a few richly decorated houses and graves contrasting with numerous spartan ones but are instead rather uniform—suggesting that there was little social stratification into chiefs and commoners.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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