Definitions for Commons

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Commons com·mon

Spelling: [kom-uh n]

IPA: /ˈkɒm ən/

Commons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in Commons (cmmnoos).

Definitions for Commons

noun

1. Often, commons. Chiefly New England. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town.
2. Law. the right or liberty, in common with other persons, to take profit from the land or waters of another, as by pasturing animals on another's land (common of pasturage) or fishing in another's waters (common of piscary)
3. commons, (used with a singular or plural verb) the commonalty; the nonruling class. the body of people not of noble birth or not ennobled, as represented in England by the House of Commons. (initial capital letter) the representatives of this body. (initial capital letter) the House of Commons.
4. commons. (used with a singular verb) a large dining room, especially at a university or college. (usually used with a plural verb) British. food provided in such a dining room. (usually used with a plural verb) food or provisions for any group.
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. an office or form of service used on a festival of a particular kind. the ordinary of the Mass, especially those parts sung by the choir. the part of the missal and breviary containing Masses and offices of those saints assigned to them.
6. Obsolete. the community or public. the common people.

Idioms

1. in common, in joint possession or use; shared equally:

adjective

1. belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question:
2. pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public:
3. joint; united:
4. widespread; general; ordinary:
5. of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar:
6. hackneyed; trite.
7. of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low:
8. coarse; vulgar:
9. lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary:
10. Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected.
11. Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches:
12. Prosody. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short.
13. Grammar. not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms: constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female: (of a noun) belonging to the common gender.
14. Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities.
15. of, relating to, or being common stock:

Origin of Commons

1250-1300; Middle English comun Anglo-French, Old French Latin commūnis common, presumably orig. “sharing common duties,” akin to mūnia duties of an office, mūnus task, duty, gift *moin-, cog

Examples for Commons

The women standing on the green outside the House of commons gave little impression of being suppressed.

Take a look at this map of House of commons constituencies in the UK.

British prime ministers, of course, are elected based on which party wins the most seats in the House of commons.

There were more than three hundred new members in the House of commons.

Peers, commons, and visitors filled the floor and galleries.

Mr. Disraeli offered a resolution of dissatisfaction in the House of commons.

Mr. Disraeli, in the commons, moved the rejection of the bill.

That resistance, so far, has forced the British prime minister to limit what he will call for in the commons.

He was a member of the Cabinet, but not of the House of commons.

Earlier this month, the House of commons voted to approve an anti-ISIS air combat role for Canada.