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commons Definition

com·mons (käm′ənz)

  1. the common people; commonalty
    1. the body politic that is made up of commoners
    2. House of Commons
    1. food provided for meals in common for all members of a group
    2. a room, building, table, or tables where such food is served, as at a college
    3. an allowance or ration of food

Etymology: see common

commons Synonyms

commons

n.

dining hall, canteen, mess hall; see dining room, restaurant.

commons Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reclaim: I have presented this information so that we can recognize all we are loosing and our task of reclaiming these commons.
  • tell: Opium, he told the Commons in April 1840, was not the cause of the war.
  • elect: In both cases, the government had to use the decrepit old Parliament Act to enforce the will of the elected Commons.
  • enter: Entering the Commons in 1782, Grenville became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger.
  • leave: He left the Commons that day to find people cheering him on the streets.
  • use: It is estimated that over 800,000 people use the commons in a year.

Converse of subject

  • pass: The bill was passed by the Commons on 15 November and by the House of Lords two months later.

Adjective modifier

  • creative: You can help promote Creative Commons in a variety of ways.
  • global: Its purpose is to protect nature and the global commons.
  • intellectual: Far from being displaced by the digital Panopticon, the ' intellectual commons ' of the Net continues to expand at an exponential rate.
  • extensive: The above premises are all freehold & have a common right over & upon all the extensive commons of Briston.

Modifies a noun

  • license: These freedoms are exactly what the Creative Commons licenses are designed to provide.
  • license: Images are licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons License, see license details by viewing a full size image.
  • regime: In commons regimes, activities we now call " economic " are embedded in other activities.
  • defeat: Last week I led opposition to Labor's terror bill and secured Tony Blair's first-ever Commons defeat.
  • majority: Those figures would give the Tories an overall Commons majority of more than 40.
  • debate: The commons debate seemed to indicate they would support UN action.

Preposition: as

  • MP: What it's really like to work in the Commons as an MP 's Parliamentary Researcher.. .

Preposition: with

  • amendment: Bill passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.

Preposition: by

  • MP: The Public Libraries Act came into effect in 1850 after it was introduced in the Commons by the campaigning MP William Ewart.
commons Quotes

Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,not beneaththereachofany pointthehighest that human capacity can soar to.

—Milton,John