commoner

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=mon=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

commoner, n. 

•  One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.  [1913 Webster]

  "All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other."  [1913 Webster]
•  A member of the House of Commons.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who has a joint right in common ground.  [1913 Webster]

  "Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury."  [1913 Webster]
•  One sharing with another in anything.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A prostitute.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

commoner, n.
1 one of the common people, as opposed to the aristocracy.
2 a person who has the right of common.
3 a student at a British university who does not have a scholarship.

Etymology

ME f. med.L communarius f. communa (as COMMUNE(1))

THESAURUS

commoner

Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, average man, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, common man, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, exhibitioner, laborers, linendrapers, little fellow, little man, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, optime, ordinary people, passman, peasantry, pensioner, plain folks, plain people, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, proletariat, questionist, rank and file, roturier, servitor, shopkeepers, sizar, small tradesmen, sophister, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people, wrangler

ROGET THESAURUS

commoner

Commonalty

N commonality, 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, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.