Cŏm'mon-er, n.
Sense 1. One of the common people; one under the degree of nobility.
All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other. Hallam.
Sense 2. A member of the House of Commons. Swift.
Sense 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
Much good land might be gained from forests and chases . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury by such improvement. Bacon.
Sense 4. One sharing or partaking with another in any thing. Fuller.
Sense 5. A student of the second rank in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on the foundation for support, but pays for his board or commons, together with all other charges. Huber.
Sense 6. A prostitute. Shak.