COMMONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Commons mean? 

• COMMONS (noun)
  The noun COMMONS has 4 senses:

1. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

2. a pasture subject to common use

3. a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

4. the common people

  Familiarity information: COMMONS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

common; commons; green; park

Context example:

they went for a walk in the park

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

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

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

amusement park; funfair; pleasure ground (a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement)

village green (a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land)

Instance hyponyms:

Central Park (a large park in Manhattan)

Holonyms ("commons" is a part of...):

populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pasture subject to common use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

common land; commons

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

grazing land; lea; ley; pasture; pastureland (a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

commonality; commonalty; commons

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

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The common people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Commons; third estate

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

estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to Doctors' Commons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The King, the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons were each in succession cursed by the Prince, in spite of the excellent advice which he had given me about the British Constitution.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life 'aisy', kept him on short commons.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And now, Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk down to Doctors’ Commons, where I hope to get some data which may help us in this matter.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In good truth, the commons throughout the length and breadth of the land were heart-weary of this fine game of chivalry which had been played so long at their expense.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly called the House of Commons, who were all principal gentlemen, freely picked and culled out by the people themselves, for their great abilities and love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation.

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

As the head of the house, he felt that he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand; For they must have been seen together, he observed, once at Tattersall's, and twice in the lobby of the House of Commons.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I had ample leisure to refine upon my uneasiness: for Steerforth was at Oxford, as he wrote to me, and when I was not at the Commons, I was very much alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I think, sir, that the Commons would respond now if the matter were fairly put before them by Charlie Fox or myself,” said Sheridan.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)