Meaning of COMMONER
| Pronunciation: | | 'kâmunur
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person who holds no title |
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| | Synonyms: | | common man, common person |
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| | See Also: | | bourgeois, burgher, cipher, cypher, everyman, human, individual, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, layman, layperson, man in the street, mortal, nobody, nonentity, person, pleb, plebeian, prole, proletarian, rustic, somebody, someone, soul, worker | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com"mon*er\, n.
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
All below them [the peers] even their children, were
commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each
other. --Hallam.
2. A member of the House of Commons.
3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
Much good land might be gained from forests . . .
and from other commonable places, so as always there
be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no
injury. --Bacon.
4. One sharing with another in anything. [Obs.] --Fuller.
5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not
dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all
university charges; - - at Cambridge called a {pensioner}.
6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | average man, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, Cockney, common man, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, Everyman, exhibitioner, John Smith, laborers, linendrapers, little fellow, little man, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, optime, ordinary people, passman, peasantry, pensioner, plain folks, plain people, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, proletariat, questionist, rank and file, roturier, servitor, shopkeepers, sizar, small tradesmen, sophister, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people, wrangler |
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