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COMMONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The common people
Synonyms:
Commons; third estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
Synonyms:
commonality; commonalty; commons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("commons" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A pasture subject to common use
Synonyms:
common land; commons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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 4
Meaning:
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
Example:
they went for a walk in the park
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
Context examples:
Steerforth not yet appearing, which induced me to apprehend that he must be ill, I left the Commons early on the third day, and walked out to Highgate.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The Prince burst out against the Commons with an energy of hatred that one would scarce expect from that chubby, good-humoured face.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At about mid-day, we set out for the office of Messrs Spenlow and Jorkins, in Doctors' Commons.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When I thought of the energy with which he had just been cursing the House of Commons, I could scarce keep from smiling, and I saw Sheridan put his hand up to his lips.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We took things much more easily in the Commons than they could be taken anywhere else, he observed, and that set us, as a privileged class, apart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was only yesterday that we had an infernal Dutchman here howling about some arrears of interest and the deuce knows what. ‘My good fellow,’ said I, ‘as long as the Commons starve me, I have to starve you,’ and so the matter ended.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, he launched into a general eulogium on the Commons.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Have I detected you in another feast, you Sybarite! These Doctors' Commons fellows are the gayest men in town, I believe, and beat us sober Oxford people all to nothing!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“All is agreed and understood between us, now, Trot,” said my aunt, “and we need talk of this no more. Give me a kiss, and we'll go to the Commons after breakfast tomorrow.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I went to see The Stranger, as a Doctors' Commons sort of play, and was so dreadfully cut up, that I hardly knew myself in my own glass when I got home.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
