As a proper noun. A name given to: a hypothetical man, esp. a representative of the common or ordinary people. Cf. Jock, n.1

A servant or slave (of a specified person); one of the common people. Obsolete.

An ordinary person as distinguished from a member of the aristocracy or upper classes.

A member of the public; one of the common people. Usually in plural. Obsolete.

gen. A person not of noble or privileged rank; one of the ordinary people, a commoner. Now usually derogatory: a person of low social status, a…

absol. and as n.

(a generic name for) an ordinary man; (later also) a henpecked husband.

A person of low social rank; a commoner; spec. (in pre-revolutionary France) a member of a social class comprising all those not nobles or clergy…

Used as a mock-title to designate one of the common people. Obsolete. rare.

(The type of) a man of little wealth or status, an undistinguished and ordinary man; the ‘man in the street’. Cf. little people, n. 2, little guy n.…

A member of the ordinary people or working classes; = plebeian, n. 2. Frequently derogatory: an unsophisticated or uncultured person. See also plebs…

a man who comes from or identifies himself with the common people; a working-class man.

the man in the street (also the man on the street): the ordinary or average man (or, in extended use, person), esp. as distinguished from the expert…

A person belonging to the ordinary or lower social class; one having no pretensions to rank or gentility.

the man in the street: see street, n. adj.phrases 5; hence in extended use, as the man in the (also a) parlour (pub, bus,etc.). the man on the Claph…

A working-class person; a labourer, tradesman, etc. Also gen. as a term of contempt. Cf. oik, n.