commonalty

Roget category 876

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#876. Commonalty

noun

commonalty, democracy — obscurity — low condition, low life, low society, low company — bourgeoisie — mass of the people, mass of society — Brown Jones and Robinson — lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders — vulgar herd, common herd — rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.] — the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry — king Mob — proletariat — fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed — man in the street.
mob — rabble, rabble rout — chaff, rout, horde, canaille — scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society — swinish multitude, foex populi^† — trash — profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.] — vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail — small fry.
commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.
Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney — grisette^†, demimonde.
peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl — villain, villein — terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land — serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah — longshoreman — swain, clown, hind — clod, clodhopper — hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin — plowman, plowboy^† — rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil — hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^† — gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling — gamin — rough — pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^† — vulgar fellow, low fellow — cad, curmudgeon.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack^† — nobody, nobody one knows — hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.] — bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer — man of straw.
beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade — gossoon^†.
Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo — unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.
barbarousness, barbarism — boeotia.

verb

be ignoble etc. adj., be nobody etc. n..

adjective

ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly — below par — no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643 — homely, homespun — vulgar, low-minded — snobbish.
plebeian, proletarian — of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction — lowborn, baseborn, earthborn^† — mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks — unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.
rustic, uncivilized — loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish — rude, unlicked^†.
barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque^† — cockney, born within sound of Bow bells.
underling, menial, subaltern.

adverb

below the salt.

phrase

dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat.] [Ovid].

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