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I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
Sophie Hannah

Meaning of "commoner" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMONER

commoner  [ˈkɒmənə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMONER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Commoner is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMONER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

commoner

Commoner

The terms common people, commoners, or the masses denote a broad social division referring to ordinary people who are members of neither the nobility nor the priesthood. Since the 20th century, the term common people has been used in a more general sense to refer to typical members of society in contrast to highly privileged.

Definition of commoner in the English dictionary

The first definition of commoner in the dictionary is a person who does not belong to the nobility. Other definition of commoner is a person who has a right in or over common land jointly with another or others. Commoner is also a student at a university or other institution who is not on a scholarship.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMONER


Adana
ˈædənə
air-conditioner
ˈɛəkənˌdɪʃ ənə
almoner
ˈɑːmənə
bottle-opener
ˈbɒtəlˌəʊpənə
Brahmana
ˈbrɑːmənə
commissioner
kəˈmɪʃənə
conditioner
kənˈdɪʃənə
gammoner
ˈɡæmənə
governor
ˈɡʌvənə
Helena
ˈhɛlənə
listener
ˈlɪsənə
opener
ˈəʊpənə
paraleipomena
ˌpærəlaɪˈpɒmənə
paralipomena
ˌpærəlaɪˈpɒmənə
practitioner
prækˈtɪʃənə
prisoner
ˈprɪzənə
strengthener
ˈstreŋθənə
summoner
ˈsʌmənə
tetrahymena
ˌtɛtrəˈhaɪmənə
theologoumena
ˌθɪələˈɡuːmənə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMONER

common-law marriage
common-law wife
common-or-garden
common-sense
commonable
commonage
commonalities
commonality
commonalties
commonalty
commoney
commonhold
commonly
commonness
commonplace
commonplace book
commonplaceness
commons
commonsensible
commonsensical

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMONER

boner
coroner
disponer
executioner
falconer
general practitioner
kroner
Londoner
loner
moner
nurse practitioner
pensioner
petitioner
schooner
sooner
stoner
telephoner
tensioner
toner
wagoner

Synonyms and antonyms of commoner in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COMMONER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «commoner» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of commoner

Translation of «commoner» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMONER

Find out the translation of commoner to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of commoner from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commoner» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平民
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

plebeyo
570 millions of speakers

English

commoner
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आम आदमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عامة الشعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

простолюдин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

plebeu
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধারণ ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

roturier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Biasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bürgerliche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

庶民
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

서민
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Commoner
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thường dân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுவான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामान्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

halktan olan kimse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cittadino (non nobile)
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gminu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

простолюдин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de rând
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αστός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ofrälse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

borgerlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of commoner

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMONER»

The term «commoner» is regularly used and occupies the 67.511 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMONER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «commoner» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «commoner» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about commoner

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4 QUOTES WITH «COMMONER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word commoner.
1
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
2
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
3
Sophie Hannah
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
4
Charles Simonyi
Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMONER»

Discover the use of commoner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commoner and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Commoner
From the Trade Paperback edition.
John Burnham Schwartz, 2009
2
Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China: Selections from the ...
Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights?
Gu Ban, 1974
3
James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner
In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources never before or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of George's letters held by his descendents and never used by historians.
Timothy B. Smith, 2012
4
Commoner ritual and ideology in ancient Mesoamerica
This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica's common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from Formative through Postclassic periods.
Nancy Gonlin, Jon C. Lohse, 2007
5
The Would-be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and ...
Follows a French nobleman who abandoned his aristocratic life to wed an innkeeper's daughter, the arrest of his first wife for his death, his return to clear her of murder charges, and his fight to prove his identity.
Jeffrey S. Ravel, 2008
6
The Senior Commoner
' Whilst, interestingly, there might stylistic similarities with Henry Green and the early novels of Anthony Powell (all three authors were at Eton at the same time, though Julian Hall was two years junior to the other two) this novel very ...
Julian Hall, 2012
7
Commoner Sense: The Working Person_s Guide to America
Patrick J. Fornari. founders began to look at their government as a foreign entity and a foreign threat . This is how I feel now . I feel as if our government, our “we the people” thing, is in the past, that now our government is external to the ...
Patrick J. Fornari, 2014
8
Making Peace With the Planet
In his monumental bestsellers, The Closing Circle and Science and Survival, Barry Commoner was one of the first scientists to alert us to the hideous environmental costs of our technological development.
Barry Commoner, 1992
9
The Duchess and the Commoner
(This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal—an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays—deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay’s metaphor for the Québécois ...
Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman, 1999
10
The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ...
Austen, G., Commoner of St. John's ; Bishop, A. C, Commoner of Queen's ; B re re ton, J., Gentleman Commoner of New College ; Bush, J., Commoner of Wadham ; Edwards, J. W., Commoner of Brasennose ; Good lake, T. W„ Scholar of ...
Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1834

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMONER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commoner is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Kate Middleton, Camilla Parker-Bowles Feud: Prince Charles' Wife …
Kate Middleton's commoner approach to parenting, and less than royal behavior, has raised a few eyebrows over the years, and seriously ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Jul 15»
2
9 Books About Royalty To Help Fans Of Will And Kate Continue The …
Joseph has been working up an unofficial biography of everyone's favorite former-commoner since before she was a part of the royal family, and the love story ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
3
Princeton Portuguese Festa celebrates culture
"I'm honored to be the commoner crowned queen." Ali is the daughter or Stacy and Cynthia Argo. She grew up attending the Princeton ... «Appeal-Democrat, Jul 15»
4
Why I support Bernie Sanders
Go back to the Henry Wallace campaign in 1948, to the later efforts by Barry Commoner, John Anderson, Ralph Nader. (I leave aside the ... «People's World, Jul 15»
5
Lee Joon-gi, TVXQ Changmin turn vampire, prince in new TV drama
... the crown prince Lee Yoon, a character who is “intelligent and of noble character, but pretends to be a free-spirited commoner on the outside. «The Korea Herald, Jul 15»
6
Does the green movement have a presentation issue in the media?
The campaigning American ecologist Barry Commoner wrote in 1971 that “the first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything ... «The News Hub, Jul 15»
7
Pittsburgh ranked top-10 foodie city for 2015
Dennis Marron, the executive chef of The Commoner in the Kimpton's Hotel Monaco, Downtown, cited the housing market, the rise of tech firms ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
8
BJP leaders at war: Water Minister Uma Bharti blasts Madhya …
They have not been able to come to terms with the fact that a commoner has become the CM and won a third term too,” he added. “I want to ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
Access for the commoner but the elite has a place too
People queue up for tickets while others camp out at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on July 2. Photograph by: Carl ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
10
SRK: The commoner who became king
Academic, management consultant and content editor Koral Dasgupta's research papers have been published in leading journals and ... «domain-B, Jul 15»

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