Commonalty

Quick meaning: Commonalty is a noun meaning The common people; the commonality.

Meaning

The common people; the commonality.

More Meanings

1. A group of things having similar characteristics.
2. A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
3. The state or quality of having things in common.
4. A shared feature.

Example Sentences

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.

Some individuals fight the expectation that they ought to be part of any such "we," while others eagerly seek a sense of commonalty.

Second Citizen: Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius? First Citizen: Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.

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.

Word Forms

• commonalties

Synonyms for commonalty

Depending on context, synonyms include canaille, commonality, crowd, demos, herd, lower class.

Antonyms for commonalty

Common opposites include aristocracy, elite, nobility, upper class, bourgeois, middle class.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commonality, commons, commonship, communality, community, common.

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