Commoner

Definition: Commoner

Commoner

Noun

1. A person who holds no title.

Date "commoner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Commoner The Great Commoner. 1. Sir John Barnard, who, in 1737, proposed to reduce the interest of the national debt from 4 per cent. to 3 per cent., any creditor being at liberty to receive his principal in full if he preferred it. Mr. Goschen (1889-90) reduced the 3 per cents. to two and a half. 2. William Pitt, the statesman (1759-1806). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Commoner is a social class term used to describe people who are not of royal blood. It is sometimes mistaken as referring to those not of noble blood, but this is incorrect; Lady Diana Spencer, though the daughter of Earl Spencer, was described as a commoner at the time of her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales, as was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) at the time of her marriage to Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI.

The most famous continued usage of the reference is found in the term House of Commons (literally House of Commoners), through ironically its sister chamber, the House of Lords, was also largely made up of commoners, ie, members of the peerage who were not of royal birth. In practice those holding peerages are not called commoners but nobles, ie, those of had been ennobled, that is had been made a peer by the monarch or by birth.

In some British universities (notably Oxford and Cambridge), a commoner is an undergraduate student who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.

Synonyms: Commoner

Synonyms: common man (n), common person (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Commonalty	Commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, grisette, demimonde.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Commoner

English words defined with "commoner": Alleluiah ♦ Caryophyllidae ♦ Han't ♦ Melton ♦ subclass Caryophyllidae. (references)

Specialty definitions using "commoner": BRYAN ♦ Fellow Commoner ♦ Great Commoner. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But your Highness, she's a commoner! Her slurm will taste foul (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)
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Domain	Title
Books	Ask Mamma: Or the Richest Commoner in England (reference) Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China (reference) Pitt the Elder: The Great Commoner (reference) Thaddeus Stevens: Commoner. (reference) The birds around us : the commoner birds of Southern Africa (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Common sense? here's some commoner sense!. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Samuel Butler	A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	By making an explicit consent of every commoner, necessary to any one's appropriating to himself any part of what is given in common, children or servants could not cut the meat, which their father or master had provided for them in common, without assigning to every one his peculiar part. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Marshall Islands	Kessai Note is a commoner. (references)
Political Rights	Tonga	Cabinet members and nobles usually vote as a bloc; however, votes related to impeachment charges against a commoner member of the Cabinet demonstrated that nobles and the representatives of the general population may override the Cabinet's wishes at times. (references)
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"Commoner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.41% of the time. "Commoner" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	51.41%	73	39,105
Adjective (comparative)	48.59%	69	40,280
Total	100.00%	142	N/A

Expressions using "commoner": Gentleman commoner ♦ the Great Commoner. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "commoner": Fellow-commoner, gentleman-commoner.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "commoner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i thjeshtë (Hick), anëtar i dhomës së përfaqësuesve. (various references)

Arabic		‏من عامة الشعب (layman), ‏عضو في مجلس العموم, ‏طالب في جامعة, ‏شخص عامي سوقي. (various references)

Bulgarian		обикновен гражданин. (various references)

Chinese		�"较共同. (various references)

Czech		prostý obèan, muž z lidu. (various references)

Danish		pokkenholt (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life), guajaktrae (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life), fransosenholt (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life). (various references)

Dutch		Westindisch pokhout (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life), polhout (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life), pokhout (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life), guajakhout (commoner lignum-vitae, guaiac, guaiacum, guayac, lignum vitae, tree of life, wood of life). (various references)

Farsi		شخص غیراشرافی . (various references)

Finnish		aateliton (not of noble birth). (various references)

French		roturier, public, membre � la chambre des communes. (various references)

German		bürgerliche, Bürger (bourgeois, burgess, burgesses, burgher, citizen, citizens, Freeman, middleclass citizen, townsman, townsmen). (various references)

Greek		κοινόσ πολίτησ, κοινόσ θνητόσ, αστόσ (bourgeois, townsman). (various references)

Hebrew		אזרח פשוט. (various references)

Hungarian		polgár (bourgeois, bud, burgess, burgher, citizen, civilian, townee), nem nemes, közember (person of no rank). (various references)

Italian		cittadino comune, borghese (bourgeois, Burgess, civilian, middle-class person, plain clothes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		平民 (plebeian), 下院議�"� (member of the lower house). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かい�"ぎい�" (member of the lower house), へいみ�" (plebeian). (various references)

Korean		공동 (Collective, Common, Commonest, Conjoint, sinus, Sinuses). (various references)

Manx		fer theayee, cadjinagh (commonly, generally, prevalent, prosaic, public, vulgarly). (various references)

Pig Latin		ommonercay.(various references)

Portuguese		cidadão (acolyte, burgess, burgher, citizen, denizen, liege, member, mister, patron, supporter, townee), relativo a homem do povo, plebeu (ignoble, plebeian, vulgar, vulgarian), homem do povo. (various references)

Romanian		student nebursier, om din popor, om de rând (john doe), membru al camerei comunelor. (various references)

Russian		человек незнатного происхождения, член палаты общин, имеющий общинные права. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prost čovek, prost (coarse, common, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar). (various references)

Spanish		plebeyo (pleb, plebeian, plebian). (various references)

Swedish		ofrälse person, medlem av underhuset, icke-stipendiat. (various references)

Turkish		halktan olan kimse, genel otlağı kullanma hakkı olan kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian		недворянин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	2. ma�da. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Guaiacum officinale, Guaiacum sanctum, Lignum vitae. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "commoner": commoners. (additional references)
	Words ending with "commoner": uncommoner. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Commoner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comenen, commone, commoned, componer, comunero, Komrower, Monmonier. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "commoner" (pronounced kÄ"muner)
4	-m u n er	examiner, laminar.
3	-u n er	bargainer, Commissioner, conditioner, confectioner, coroner, executioner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, freshener, gardener, hardener, listener, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, parishioner, pensioner, petitioner, practitioner, prisoner, probationer, questioner, reasoner, softener, stationer, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, vacationer, Waggoner, Wagoner.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-m-m-n-o-o-r"
	-1 letter: monomer.
	-2 letters: common.
	-3 letters: comer, cooer, crone, croon, enorm, moron, recon, romeo.
	-4 letters: cero, come, cone, coon, core, corm, corn, memo, meno, mome, mono, moon, moor, more, morn, nome, norm, omen, omer, once, room.
	-5 letters: con, coo, cor, eon, ern, mem, men, moc, mom, mon, moo, mor, nom, noo, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, rem.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-m-m-n-o-o-r"
	+1 letter: commoners, comonomer, monomeric.
	+2 letters: chromonema, comonomers, metronomic, monochrome, uncommoner.
	+3 letters: commentator, comportment, countermemo, monochromes.
	+4 letters: chromonemata, commendatory, commentators, commissioner, comportments, countermemos, metronomical, normothermic, recommission.
	+5 letters: chromonematic, commemorating, commemoration, commiseration, commissioners, macroeconomic, microeconomic, monoaminergic, monomolecular, monomorphemic, noncommercial, recommissions.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
commoner great	46
commoner salem times	15
barry commoner	7
commoner	4
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Commoner

Definition: Commoner

Commoner

Noun

Specialty Definition: Commoner

Specialty Definition: Commoner

Synonyms: Commoner

Synonyms within Context: Commoner

Commonalty

Crosswords: Commoner

Modern Usage: Commoner

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Samuel Butler

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John Locke

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Modern Translation: Commoner

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