Commoner
['kɒmənə] or ['kɑmənɚ]
Definition
(n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
(n.) A member of the House of Commons.
(n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.
(n.) One sharing with another in anything.
(n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
(n.) A prostitute.
Typed by Justine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Middle-man.
Checked by Herman
Examples
- I was not averse to doing this, as it served to make me and my boat a commoner incident among the water-side people there. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I think it is a pity Mr. Casaubon's mother had not a commoner mind: she might have taught him better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But there must be many in our rank who manage with much less: they must do with commoner things, I suppose, and look after the scraps. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The commoner kind--the ordinary coal gas--consists of two measures of hydrogen mixed with one measure of carbon vapour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Their peculiar physiognomy, the long nose and thick lips, was very like that of the commoner type of Polish Jew to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He resented the girl's position, as if the lady had been the commonest of commoners. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The nobles and commoners became landlords and gentlemen farmers; it was they who directed the shipbuilding and engaged in trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Never mind the commoners, whom we will leave to grumble anonymously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was the nobles and free commoners, two classes which, in some cases, merged into one common body of citizens, who constituted the Greek state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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