Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the common people.
- n. A person without noble rank or title.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the common people; a member of the commonalty.
- n. Specifically A person inferior in rank to the nobility; one of the commons.
- n. A member of the British House of Commons.
- n. A member of a common council; a common-councilman.
- n. One who has a joint right in common ground.
- n. A student of the second rank in the University of Oxford, not dependent on the foundation for support, but paying for his board and eating at the common table: corresponding to a pensioner at Cambridge.
- n. One who boards in commons.
- n. A prostitute.
- n. A partaker; one sharing with another.
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of common: more common
- n. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
- n. UK Someone who is not of noble rank.
- n. UK, at Oxbridge universities An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
- n. obsolete, UK A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
- n. Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
- n. obsolete One sharing with another in anything.
- n. obsolete A prostitute.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
- n. A member of the House of Commons.
- n. One who has a joint right in common ground.
- n. obsolete One sharing with another in anything.
- n. 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 . - n. obsolete A prostitute.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who holds no title
Etymologies
- common + -er (“comparative suffix”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Even Rachel, her best friend, wanted to vote her Biggest Plebe in our online poll—“plebe” after the word for commoner—in social studies last year.”
“Her father initially disapproved of the match, despite the fact that 36 years ago to the day he married a "commoner" - Silvia Sommerlath, who is of mixed German and Brazilian descent.”
“And with LIFE Books' The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton we are already there with Charles and Di's son--Elizabeth's grandson--as he prepares to wed the lovely Kate Middleton in a true fairytale story: the man who will be king and the so-called "commoner" who has captured his heart.”
The Huffington Post: Royal Wedding: LIFE's Portrayal Of Will And Kate (PHOTOS)
“Justin the Genius, you mean to tell me that I can now be classified as a commoner?”
“He had no power among the Canitaurs, but was only a titled commoner, more like Wagner's groom than counsel.”
“Can't you understand that I am only an untitled commoner to his people?”
“The privileged person avoids or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much through pride as through interest.”
“The prince had married what the British call a commoner; now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge titles granted by Queen Elizabeth II.”
“But until something like that is on offer, this seems to be more about the success of Kate's "commoner" parents than the Middletons capitalizing on their daughter.”
“It would be politically incorrect for a "commoner", irrespective of his previous stature, to take on such a highly sensitive task.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘commoner’.
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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EAP 90
gossip, Collar, compassionate, insightful, alliances, superiority, versus, discrimination, flaw, broad, commoner, miniature and 32 more...
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