Commoner Definition

kŏmə-nər
commoners
noun
commoners
One of the common people.
American Heritage
A person not of the nobility; member of the commonalty.
Webster's New World
At some universities, a student who does not have a scholarship and therefore pays for food (called commons) and other expenses.
Webster's New World

Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective

Comparative form of common: more common.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
  • rarer
  • scarcer
  • higher
  • nobler

Other Word Forms of Commoner

Noun

Singular:
commoner
Plural:
commoners

Origin of Commoner

  • common +‎ -er (“comparative suffix”)

    From Wiktionary

Commoner Sentence Examples

  • The table on the opposite page shows the uses of a few of the commoner signs.

  • He was admitted to the Middle Temple in February 1637, and in May be became a fellow commoner of Balliol College, Oxford.

  • In fact, five scholars and perhaps one commoner left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election.

  • In 1721 he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied law at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar.

  • But Gibbon's friends in a few weeks discovered that the new tutor preferred the pleasures of London to the instruction of his pupils, and in this perplexity decided to send him prematurely to Oxford, where he was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, 3rd April 1752.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOM

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RERNER

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