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  • noun Plural form of commoner.

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Examples

  • It was what they called the commoners in ancient Rome.

    Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010

  • It was what they called the commoners in ancient Rome.

    Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010

  • The only solution that will actually work for us commoners is to get rid of ALL health insurance companies.

    John King's Monday Memo: Will retailers deliver good news? 2009

  • And because her skin was of the colour of the heart 319 of the blue lotus, they called her Uppalavaṇṇā. 320 Now, when she was come of age, kings and commoners from the whole of India sent messengers to her father, saying: 'Give us your daughter.'

    Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

  • The Copy Left, or the "free culture movement," as it is sometimes known, has articulated this position in part by drawing on the tradition of the medieval agricultural commons, the collective right of villagers, vassals and serfs - "commoners" - to make use of a plot of land.

    RVABlogs 2008

  • The Copy Left, or the "free culture movement," as it is sometimes known, has articulated this position in part by drawing on the tradition of the medieval agricultural commons, the collective right of villagers, vassals and serfs - "commoners" - to make use of a plot of land.

    RVABlogs 2008

  • The Copy Left, or the "free culture movement," as it is sometimes known, has articulated this position in part by drawing on the tradition of the medieval agricultural commons, the collective right of villagers, vassals and serfs -- "commoners" -- to make use of a plot of land.

    Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest 2008

  • He’s dressed simply in commoners’ garb, but the loping grace and speed with which he moves suggests that the clothes, in this case, may not precisely make the man.

    geeky fun for everyone. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2008

  • 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 1726

  • Because royalty is trying to escape rigidity and adopt a common touch, she preferred on this formal occasion to adopt the informal usage of commoners, which is sometimes called common usage.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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  • And royal weddings take extravagance to a level that we “commoners” seldom see. ODB June 11, 2011. - Orang kebanyakan, kaum awam.

    June 11, 2011