commoner
Adjective
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Adjective
- comparative form of common
commoner (plural commoners)
- A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
- (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
- All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
- (British, Oxbridge slang) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
- (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
- Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- 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.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
- (member of the common people) seeSynonyms en
- (prostitute) seeSynonyms en
- French: roturier, homme du peuple, plébéien
- Italian: plebeo
- Portuguese: plebeu
- Russian: простолюди́н
- Spanish: plebeyo, comunero
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