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Definition of Commoner
1. Noun. A person who holds no title.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Bourgeois, Burgher, Cipher, Cypher, Nobody, Nonentity, Everyman, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, Man In The Street, Layman, Layperson, Secular, Pleb, Plebeian, Prole, Proletarian, Worker, Rustic
Definition of Commoner
1. n. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Definition of Commoner
1. Adjective. (comparative of common) ¹
2. Noun. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank. ¹
3. Noun. (British) Someone who is not of noble rank. ¹
4. Noun. (British at Oxbridge universities) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition. ¹
5. Noun. Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commoner
1. one of the common people [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commoner
Literary usage of Commoner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"It may be prejudicial to the commoner, yet not injurious ; it may be both prejudicial
... and the like: and thereby authorizes the commoner to remove every ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"The commoner m.iy have ... common* for the commoner's cattle j but he cannot ...
that the commoner cannot k:ll the conies.' - 4 Le. 7. pi. 32. ..."
3. Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century by Alexander Kelly McClure (1902)
"In the entire history of the Republic but two men rose to the distinction of
commoner—Henry Clay and Thaddeus Stevens. Clay was the accepted commoner while ..."
4. The Law of Pleading and Evidence in Civil Actions: Arranged Alphabetically by John Simcoe Saunders (1831)
"An action of trespass does not, in general, lie by the commoner, ... If, indeed,
the commoner's cattle be taken, on the ground of his having no right of ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) commoner Clinical Forms of Nephropathy Clinically, the commoner forms of ...
I have attempted to classify the commoner forms of renal disease as ..."
6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1830)
"To deduce this conclusion it was, in the first place alleged as a general and
established proposition, " that a commoner may undoubtedly distrain the cattle ..."
7. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"15. and there the commoner hath not any remedy, if he cannot enter and kill the
conies, ... jet the commoner may put in his cattle, claiming his common, ..."
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