commoner
commoner
Definition
com·moner (-ər)
noun
- a person not of the nobility; member of the commonalty
- Brit. at some universities, a student who does not have a scholarship and therefore pays for food (called commons) and other expenses
Etymology: ME communer < commun, common
commoner
Synonyms
commoner
n.
commoner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- marry: The Duke of Windsor married a commoner, Wallis Simpson.
- become: He became the first commoner to hold the post in 2000.
Adjective modifier
- rich: At the time he was described as the richest commoner in England having made his fortune from Soldiering and Coal mining in Durham.
- much: Much commoner in Southern Badajoz with up to 10 per day seen.
- other: Here, the edge of the lough is fringed by stands of great fen-sedge along with other commoner swamp types.
- wealthy: William Russell, a Sunderland banker who bought Brancepeth castle in 1796, was the country's wealthiest commoner.
- married: Even tho his sisters married commoners, finding a wife for Prince Felipe proved more difficult.
- first: He became the first commoner to hold the post in 2000.
Modifies a noun
- migrant: April 11th Just a hint of a little more movement today with the first small flurry of grounded commoner migrants of the week.
- specie: Unlike the past, many of the records are of common or at least commoner species.
- cause: Species of this genus are among the six commoner causes of contact dermatitis from woods in France ( Zafiropoulo et al.
- right: In addition there are Commoners rights owned by a small number of farmers over large parts of the hill.
- bird: Specially filmed footage of 43 species of our commoner birds.
Noun used with modifier
- gentleman: In 1635 he became a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, Oxford.
- fellow: Mr Maurice Scarr, our oldest Fellow Commoner, sadly lost his wife Mabel in November.
Possessives
- vhusha: Two views of a novice during the second stage of commoners ' vhusha.
- right: To avoid loss of commoners ' rights, these dwellings would probably have been scattered about the moor.
- gown: I could get a graduate commoner's gown or an MA gown.
Preposition: of
- specie: It is the commoner of the two shad species found in British waters.
Preposition: with
- right: However the interests of commoners with few rights must be protected.
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