commoner
IPA: kˈɑmʌnɝ
noun
- A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
- (Britain) Someone who is not of noble rank.
- (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
- Someone who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights
- (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
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Examples of "commoner" in Sentences
- Can't you understand that I am only an untitled commoner to his people?
- Justin the Genius, you mean to tell me that I can now be classified as a commoner?
- He had no power among the Canitaurs, but was only a titled commoner, more like Wagner's groom than counsel.
- Even Rachel, her best friend, wanted to vote her Biggest Plebe in our online poll—“plebe” after the word for commoner—in social studies last year.
- Her father initially disapproved of the match, despite the fact that 36 years ago to the day he married a "commoner" - Silvia Sommerlath, who is of mixed German and Brazilian descent.
- The privileged person avoids or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much through pride as through interest.
- And with LIFE Books' The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton we are already there with Charles and Di's son--Elizabeth's grandson--as he prepares to wed the lovely Kate Middleton in a true fairytale story: the man who will be king and the so-called "commoner" who has captured his heart.
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