1A person of low social rank; a commoner; specifically (in pre-revolutionary France) a member of a social class comprising all those not nobles or clergy, i.e. the bourgeois and villeins collectively. Compare roture .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, often implying vulgarity, and the possession of newly acquired wealth.

2In Canada: a person who holds real estate subject to an annual rent paid to a seigneur. Compare roture .

Of or characteristic of a roturier; of low social rank; not noble; common.