Com″mon‐er (?), n. 1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
Hallam.
2. A member of the House of Commons.
3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
Much good land might be gained from forests... and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
Bacon.
4. One sharing with another in anything. Fuller.
5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
6. A prostitute. Shak.