commoner

[ UK /kˈɒmənɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑmənɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who holds no title
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How To Use commoner In A Sentence

  • Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
  • Likewise, the status of the father determined that of the offspring; the children of a noblewoman who married a commoner would not be noble.
  • During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
  • In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.
  • Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
  • To give it a completely realistic touch, there is even the bench at the edge of the spring and pool, a vantage photographic point that Presidents and commoners alike choose, to record their visit.
  • It is submitted that Mr Podger and his ancestors have had grazing rights as a statutory commoner of the 5,000 acres at the Curragh.
  • Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist. New Dan Simmons Story
  • For despite its majestic name, the Kitchen King masala is best suited as a multipurpose masala that is best used for throwing together tasty and impromptu dishes for everyday meals for us commoners. Archive 2008-02-01
  • The play satirized the nobility and made a commoner - a haircutter, no less - the protagonist.
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