the general publicnoun [ S, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˌdʒen.ər.əl ˈpʌb.lɪk/us/ˌdʒen.ɚ.əl ˈpʌb.lɪk/ordinary people, especially all the people who are not members of a particular organization or who do not have any special type of knowledge:
This is a matter of great concern to the general public.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ordinary people
- community
- Essex girl
- folk
- grassroots
- Jane Doe
- Joe Bloggs
- mass
- mass market
- Middle America
- mortal
- multitude
- omnibus
- on the ground idiom
- popular
- popularly
- street
- the common man idiom
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman in the street idiom
- the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus idiom
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