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Commonalty

Definition: Commonalty

Commonalty

Noun

1. Class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "commonalty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonyms: Commonalty

Synonyms: commonality (n), commons (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Commonalty

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commonalty

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Inferiority

Commonalty.

Mankind

People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Commonalty

English words defined with "commonalty": CommonaltiesEquitesStates-generalThe multitude, third estate, Tiers etat. (references)
Specialty definitions using "commonalty": Oi Polloi. (references)
Etymologies containing "commonalty": Community. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Commonalty

DomainTitle

Books

  • High Performance Composites: Commonalty of Phenomena (reference)

  • We Have a Commonalty and a Common Dream: The Indigenous North American Novel in the 1990s (European University Studies, No 14) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Commonalty

"Commonalty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commonalty" is used about 19 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Commonalty

Expression using "commonalty": the commonalty. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Commonalty

Language Translations for "commonalty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

njerëz të thjeshtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جميع (all, whole), ‏العامة (multitude, populace), ‏الطبقة العامة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

общност (aggregation, communion, community, fraternity, intercommunity, public), обикновените хора (commonage, people), масите (masses, populace, the great unwashed, the masses, the million), простият народ. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

公共 (commonality, Communities, Community). (various references)

   

Czech

  

spoleèenství (communion, community, corporation, guild, partnership). (various references)

   

Danish

  

harmonisering af lægesprogene (commonalty of medical languages). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eenheid in het medisch spraakgebruik (commonalty of medical languages). (various references)

   

French

  

tout le peuple, standardisation, peuple (collectivity). (various references)

   

German

  

bürgerlichen (commons). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όχλοσ (canaille, crowd, hoi polloi, mob, rabble, riffraff), λαόσ (people, throng). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

emberiség (all flesh, humanity, humankind, mankind). (various references)

   

Italian

  

popolo (Commons, crowd, folk, mob, nation, people, populace), gente comune. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

공용성 (commonality). (various references)

   

Manx

  

theo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommonaltycay

   

Portuguese

  

plebe (hoi polloi, mob, people, plebs, rabble). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

corporaţie (body corporate, corporation, guild), breaslã (brotherhood, corporation, craft, guild, mystery, trade). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

общины (commonage). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raja, prost narod (populace). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

común (common, commonplace, communal, community, current, dismal, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, ordinary, prevailing, rife, team, trite, usual, widespread). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

folk (commonage, folk, folks, gentry, nation, people, servants). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

громада (common, community, sodality), народ (demos, folk, humanity, nation, nationality, people, public). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

những người bình dân (demos). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Commonalty"

Words rhyming with "commonalty" (pronounced 'Com"mon*al*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Commonalty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-l-m-m-n-o-o-t-y"

-2 letters: commonly.

-3 letters: coolant, octanol.

-4 letters: ammono, clammy, colony, common, tycoon.

-5 letters: anomy, atomy, atony, canto, canty, cloot, coaly, colon, comal, comma, commy, conto, cooly, cotan, cyano, cymol, cyton, loamy, loony, macon, malmy, malty, manly, molto, moola, moony, myoma, notal, octal, octan, octyl, talon, tammy, tolan, toman, tommy, tonal, toyon.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-l-m-m-n-o-o-t-y"
 

+1 letter: commonality.

 

+4 letters: metronomically, noncommittally.

 

+5 letters: accommodatingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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