COMMONERS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

commoners

plural noun

ˈkä-mə-nər

as in populace

the body of the community as contrasted with the elite the British nobles used to believe that they were fundamentally better than the commoners

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people

Plural Noun

Daisy says that no one even remembers that, though, that people only know about it because Hailey brings it up.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
More than half of people using AI at work worried that using it on important tasks would create exactly that impression.

— Christoph Trattner, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

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