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The third of the traditional social classes; the common people.


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In French history, one of the three orders (with the nobility and the clergy) of the Estates-General before the French Revolution. The unprivileged order, it represented the great majority of the people. Its transformation with the Tennis Court Oath into a National Assembly in 1789 marked the beginning of the Revolution.

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    The common people: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck1. See over/under.

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Meaning #1: the third estate of the realm; the commons (especially in Britain or France) viewed as forming a political order having representation in a parliament

 
 
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