Com'mon-al-ty, n.

n. [N. Fr. communauté, L. Lat. communalitas, from communalis, communis, Fr. communal. See COMMUNAL.] The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone.

The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landor.