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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The third of the traditional social classes; the common people.
Wiktionary
- n. originally The caste of commoners in France prior to 1789.
- n. by extension The commoners, collectively, in any society.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. In France, the tiers état.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the common people
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- French (Wiktionary)
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