noun
persons without rank or authority or the political estate made up of these
laws that both the gentles and the commonalty recognized as just
Synonyms: commonage, commoners, common men, commune, people, plebeians, plebes, plebs, populace, rank and file, third estate
Related Word: masses, mob, multitude, proletariat, public
Contrasted words: aristocracy, elite, gentility, nobility; classes, gentry, nobs