Thesaurus:commonalty

Thesaurus

commonalty

English

Noun

Sense: the common people

Synonyms

• canaille
• commonality
• commonalty
• crowd
• demos
• everyone
• general public
• great unhosed
• great unwashed
• herd
• hoi polloi
• lower class
• many
• masses
• mob
• multitude
• odds and sods (Britain)
• peasantry
• plebs
• populace
• proletariat
• rabble
• rank and file
• riffraff
• third estate
• trash    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unwashed
• unwashed masses
• working class

Antonyms

• aristocracy
• elite
• nobility
• upper class
• bourgeois
• middle class
• professional class

Meronyms

• commoner    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• society

Further reading

• “876. commonalty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “commonalty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.