Commoner

Definition of Commoner

Com´mon`er

n.	1.	One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other. - Hallam.
	2.	A member of the House of Commons.
	3.	One who has a joint right in common ground. 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. - Bacon.
	4.	One sharing with another in anything.
	5.	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.
	6.	A prostitute.

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