commoner

1. (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.Examples: "All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other."British

2. (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.Examples: "There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward."Synonyms: pensionerUKobsolete

3. (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.Examples: "From the Counsell he was carried home to the Prison, and there for many days kept with bread and water, so that had the proudest Anchorite, pretending to the highest abstinence, been Commoner with him, it would have tried his swiftest Devotion to keepe pace with him."obsolete

4. (obsolete) A prostitute.Examples: "O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one."Synonyms: prostituteobsolete