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  Commons \Com"mons\, n. pl.,
     1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled
        classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
        [Eng.]
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              'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds,
              Could send such message to their sovereign. --Shak.
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              The word commons in its present ordinary
              signification comprises all the people who are under
              the rank of peers.                    --Blackstone.
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     2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British
        Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the
        qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
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              It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the
              great council till some ages after the Conquest.
                                                    --Hume.
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     3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common
        table in colleges and universities.
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              Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing
              scant.                                --Dryden.
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     4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as
        in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally;
        as, to board in commons.
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     5. A common; public pasture ground.
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              To shake his ears, and graze in commons. --Shak.
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     Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in
        London where the doctors of civil law used to common
        together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty
        courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage
        licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc.
  
     To be on short commons, to have a small allowance of food.
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  Commons \Com"mons\, n. pl.,
     1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled
        classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
        [Eng.]
  
              'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could
              send such message to their sovereign. --Shak.
  
              The word commons in its present ordinary
              signification comprises all the people who are under
              the rank of peers.                    --Blackstone.
  
     2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British
        Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the
        qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
  
              It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the
              great council till some ages after the Conquest.
                                                    --Hume.
  
     3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common
        table in colleges and universities.
  
              Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing
              scant.                                --Dryden.
  
     4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as
        in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally;
        as, to board in commons.
  
     5. A common; public pasture ground.
  
              To shake his ears, and graze in commons. --Shak.
  
     Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in
        London where the doctors of civil law used to common
        together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty
        courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage
        licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc.
  
     To be on short commons, to have a small allowance of food.
        [Colloq.]

  commons
       n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
            "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, common,
             green]
       2: a pasture subject to common use [syn: common land]
       3: class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or
          gentle rank [syn: commonalty, commonality]

  commons
     n.
     (plural of en common)
     vb.
     (infl of en common  s-verb-form)

  Commons
     n.
     1 (lb en UK politics Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of
  the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
     2 (surname: en).

  commons
     n.
     (plural of en common)
     vb.
     (infl of en common  s-verb-form)

  Commons
     n.
     1 (lb en UK politics Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of
  the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
     2 (surname: en).

  commons
     n.
     (plural of en common)
     vb.
     (infl of en common  s-verb-form)

  Commons
     n.
     1 (lb en UK politics Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of
  the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
     2 (surname: en).

  commons
     n.
     (plural of en common)
     vb.
     (infl of en common  s-verb-form)

  Commons
     n.
     1 (lb en UK politics Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of
  the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
     2 (surname: en).

  commons
     Englanti n.
     1 (en-monikko c ommon)
     2 (ei-yks: k=en) yhteinen, jaettu alue, yhteismaa, yhteishyödyke

  Commons
     Englanti n.
     Britannian parlamentin alahuone

  common's
     Engelska n.
     (böjning en subst common)

  commons
     Engelska n.
     (böjning en subst common)

  commons'
     Engelska n.
     (böjning en subst common)

  Commons /kˈɒmənz/
  قاعة الطعام العامّة

  commons /kˈɒmənz/ 
  občanstvo

  commons /kˈɒmənz/ 
  měšťanstvo

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
  obecný lid

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
   [Am.] Gemeinschaftsbesitz , Gemeindebesitz  [pol.] , Gemeinschaftsgut , Gemeindegut , Gemeindeflur , Allmende , Allmend  [Schw.] , Allmeind  [Schw.]  [pol.]
     Synonyms: common land, common, town commons
  

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
  öffentlicher Platz , Gemeindeplatz , Hauptplatz 
           Note: in einem Dorf/einer Stadt
     Synonym: common
  
           Note: treated as singular
           Note: of a village/town

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
  narod, obrok, prost, treći stalež

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
  1. koszt
  2. étrend
  3. harmadik rend
  4. nép

  commons /kˈɒmənz/
  1. (çoğ.), (ing) avam, halk tabakası
  2. (üniversitede) yemekhane. House of Commons Avam Kamarası.

  Commons
  Commons

  
/ˈkɑmənz/

  COMMONS, Eng. law. Those subjects of the English nation who are not 
  noblemen. They are represented in parliament in the house of commons. 
  
  

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "commons":
     C ration, K ration, allotment, allowance, board, bourgeoisie,
     cafeteria, common, common people, common run, common sort,
     commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, dinette, dining car,
     dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, emergency rations,
     field rations, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes,
     lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, meals, mess,
     mess hall, messroom, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people,
     paradise, park, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, pleasance,
     pleasure garden, pleasure ground, proletariat, public park,
     rank and file, rations, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger,
     shopkeepers, short commons, small tradesmen, the lower cut,
     the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, tucker,
     upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people
  
  

     n. 平民,下议院,公共用