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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɒmənəlti/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: commonalties [plural]
enPR: kŏm'ənəlti [Received-Pronunciation] Etymology: From Middle English communalte, comonalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|communalte}} Middle English communalte, {{der|en|fro|comunalté}} Old French comunalté, {{der|en|la|commūnitās}} Latin commūnitās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} commonalty (countable and uncountable, plural commonalties)
  1. The common people; the commonality. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: commonalty Translations (common people): kansa (Finnish), väki (Finnish), ihmiset [plural] (Finnish), λαός (laós) [masculine] (Greek), popolo [masculine] (Italian), popolino [masculine] (Italian), volgo [masculine] (Italian), plēbs [masculine] (Latin), общины (obščiny) (Russian), наро́д (naród) [masculine] (Russian), простолюдины (prostoljudiny) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-commonalty-en-noun-wWR~jFJ6 Disambiguation of 'common people': 89 0 3 5 3
  2. A group of things having similar characteristics. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (group having similar characteritics): luokka (Finnish)
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  3. A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (class lacking clerical or noble rank): rahvas (Finnish), kansa (Finnish), volgo [masculine] (Italian), plebe [feminine] (Italian), простолюдины (prostoljudiny) (Russian), третье сосло́вие (tretʹje soslóvije) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-commonalty-en-noun-USfHB2CH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 35 29 16 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 24 24 28 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 2 31 26 21 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 27 26 28 18 Disambiguation of 'class lacking clerical or noble rank': 3 2 83 6 5
  4. The state or quality of having things in common. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-commonalty-en-noun-eeLM-D9t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 35 29 16 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 24 24 28 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 2 31 26 21 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 27 26 28 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 17 22 33 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 7 15 18 34 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 2 19 21 36 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 2 19 21 36 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 2 19 21 36 23
  5. A shared feature. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Holonyms: society Meronyms: commoner

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.",
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.",
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          "text": "1906, Sinclair Lewis, \"Unknown Undergraduates\" first published in the Yale Literary Magazine, June, 1906, in The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904-1950, Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane (eds.), New York: Pocket Books, 1962, p. 122,\nBesides the men who are unknown but important there is the commonalty, whom you regard as mere entities, whose very names you do not know, or will forget before your triennial."
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          "ref": "1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 35”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book 1, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 353:",
          "text": "[…] and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once: Sir Launcelot hath won the field whosoever say nay.",
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          "ref": "c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:",
          "text": "Second Citizen: Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?\nFirst Citizen: Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.",
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          "ref": "1910, Fiona Macleod, “The Harping of Cravetheen”, in The Sin-Eater, The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Moralities, New York: Duffield & Co., pages 91–2:",
          "text": "The commonalty spoke of his mighty spear-thrust, of his deft sword-swing, the terror of his wrath, of the fury of his battle-lust, of his laughter and light joy, and the singing that was on his lips when his sword had the silence upon it.",
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          "ref": "1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, New York: Knopf, page 8:",
          "text": "Or is there some way in which the product of that solitude—writing—may none the less be profoundly social, rejoining the commonalty of society, and through its indirections and specificities being the most authentic contribution the writer can offer?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities, University of Chicago Press, Part 3, Chapter 9, p. 382:",
          "text": "Some individuals fight the expectation that they ought to be part of any such \"we,\" while others eagerly seek a sense of commonalty.",
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          "ref": "2007, Curt R. Blakely, chapter 2, in Prisons, Penology and Penal Reform: An Introduction to Institutional Specialization, New York: Peter Lang, page 29:",
          "text": "Observant visitors to any prison will quickly recognize commonalties in its inmate population. Not only do shared traits exist among the inmate population of any particular institution (intra-prison commonalties) but commonalties also exist among inmates nationwide (inter-prison commonalties).",
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      "word": "commonality"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "crowd"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "demos"
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      "word": "everyone"
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      "word": "great unhosed"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "herd"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "hoi polloi"
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    {
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      "word": "lower class"
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      "word": "peasantry"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "populace"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "proletariat"
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    {
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      "word": "rabble"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "rank and file"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "riffraff"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "third estate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "trash"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
      "word": "unwashed"
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      "word": "unwashed masses"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "common people",
      "word": "kansa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "common people",
      "word": "väki"
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      "word": "ihmiset"
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    {
      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "laós",
      "sense": "common people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "λαός"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "common people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "popolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "common people",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "popolino"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "common people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "volgo"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "common people",
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      "word": "plēbs"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "obščiny",
      "sense": "common people",
      "word": "общины"
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      "roman": "naród",
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      ],
      "word": "наро́д"
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      "roman": "prostoljudiny",
      "sense": "common people",
      "word": "простолюдины"
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      "word": "luokka"
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      "sense": "class lacking clerical or noble rank",
      "word": "rahvas"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "plebe"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "prostoljudiny",
      "sense": "class lacking clerical or noble rank",
      "word": "простолюдины"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tretʹje soslóvije",
      "sense": "class lacking clerical or noble rank",
      "word": "третье сосло́вие"
    }
  ],
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}

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