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name
The House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canadian, UK
Topics: government, politics
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
plural of common
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
A public area, especially a dining hall, at a college or university; a similar shared space elsewhere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: singular, usually
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noun
A common (common land); especially, a central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: singular, usually
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noun
The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Synonyms: res communis
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noun
The common people collectively, the third estate, the people not belonging to the nobility or clergy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: commoners
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noun
The free burghers/bourgeoisie of a given town, taken collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
An outhouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, obsolete
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Synonyms: common house, House of Commons, backhouse, backside, bog, boggard, boghouse, carsey, chamber foreign, commons, Cousin John, craphouse, danna, draught, draught-house, dunnekin, dunny, earth closet, foreign, gang, gingerbread office, gong, gonghouse, house of ease, house of easement, house of office, issue, jacques, jakes, jakeshouse, johnny house, karzy, khazi, kocay, little house, long drop, longhouse, necessary, necessary house, necessary place, necessary vault, neddy, netty, outhouse, passage house, petty, petty-house, privy, privy house, purging place, retreat, shield, shithouse, shouse, siege, siegehouse, thunderbox, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, withdraught
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noun
Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: Oxford University
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noun
Food in general; rations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of common
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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noun
the common people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: third estate
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Broader terms: estate of the realm, estate, the three estates
noun
a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: commonalty, commonality
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Broader terms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
noun
a pasture subject to common use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: common land
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Broader terms: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley
noun
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: park, common, green
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
Narrower terms: amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground, village green, Central Park
History
Ellipsis of House of Commons.
* English and Irish (Mayo Tipperary and Galway): variant of Cummings. * English: variant of Common with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Across languages
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