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The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

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  1. n. The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
  2. n. people in general considered as a whole
  3. The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson. Syn. -- Mob; people; commonalty.
  4. The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehendingall persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, orprofession. Pope.To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel.They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.
  5. n:100 n. people in general considered as a whole