folk, common people

people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

• grass roots — the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
• home folks — folks from your own home town
• rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail — disparaging terms for the common people

• people — (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

• plebeian, pleb — one of the common people