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Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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commoner
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who holds no title [syn: common man , common person ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c. (in commoners ), from common (adj.).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The terms common people , common man , commoners , or the masses denote a broad social division referring to ordinary people who are members of neither royalty nor nobility nor the priesthood . Since the 20th century, the term common people has been used ...
Usage examples of commoner.
At any rate, it seems there has been suspicion cast on my little sister concerning the deaths of Lord Alef Drake and a commoner named Jisha Teal, last year at about this time.
Thus amongst the Angoni of British Central Africa the corpses of chiefs are burned with all their household belongings, but the bodies of commoners are buried with all their belongings in caves.
Doubtless when Queen Zorana married Clive Elkwood, the strength of the Shields was diluted and diluted again when King Chalmer insisted on marrying a commoner.
Augustus gave the Noble Order of Knights permission to marry commoners, even freedwomen, but this did not improve things very much.
Noble Order of Knights permission to marry commoners, even freedwomen, but this did not improve things very much.
Kadarin to the Sea of Dalereuth as the finest man with hawks in the Kilghard Hills, and he had taught all his arts to Mikhail, now The MacAran, and to his commoner cousin Davin Hawkmaster.
Show me your hobs ready to fight, your commoners also ready, your knights agreeing to pitch in.
Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world,--nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, selfsatisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames.
That is the place for sinners such as she is, be they queens or commoners.
The Black Lotus most resembled the Nichiren Shoshu sect, founded some four hundred years ago by a dynamic spiritual leader and still popular with commoners, which chanted the Lotus Sutra to achieve enlightenment.
The crop is afterwards used for loans to the poorer commoners, mostly free grants, or for the orphans and widows, or for the village church, or for the school, or for repaying a communal debt.
For instance, in three districts of the province of Moscow--industrial to a great extent--drainage works have been accomplished within the last ten years on a large scale in no less than 180 to 200 different villages--the commoners working themselves with the spade.
German colony of the south-east the commoners worked, men and women alike, for five weeks in succession, to erect a dam, two miles long, for irrigation purposes.
What could they obtain through individual effort when South Russia was struck with the marmot plague, and all people living on the land, rich and poor, commoners and individualists, had to work with their hands in order to conjure the plague?
The whole population of nobles at court and most of the rich commoners of Krondor were attending the gala.