COMMONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commoner mean? 

• COMMONER (noun)
  The noun COMMONER has 1 sense:

1. a person who holds no title

  Familiarity information: COMMONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who holds no title

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

common man; common person; commoner

Hypernyms ("commoner" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commoner"):

bourgeois; burgher (a member of the middle class)

cipher; cypher; nobody; nonentity (a person of no influence)

everyman (the ordinary person)

Joe Bloggs; Joe Blow; John Doe; man in the street (a hypothetical average man)

layman; layperson; secular (someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person)

pleb; plebeian (one of the common people)

prole; proletarian; worker (a member of the working class (not necessarily employed))

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

 Context examples 

Wear the necklace, as you are engaged to do, to-morrow evening, and let the chain, which was not ordered with any reference to the ball, be kept for commoner occasions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the commoner intermediate grade tumors, however, behavior is extremely variable.

(Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Neither lord, baron, knight, or commoner shall have as much as a strike of flax of mine whilst I have strength to wag this sword.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then desired to know, What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most considerable gentleman in the neighbourhood?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am but a poor commoner of England myself, and yet I know something of charters, liberties, franchises, usages, privileges, customs, and the like.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every land hath indeed its ways and manners; but I promise you, Edward, that when you are my guest in Toledo or Madrid you shall not yearn in vain for any commoner's daughter on whom you may deign to cast your eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)