commonalty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English comunalte, communalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās.
Some senses are influenced by commonality.
Inflected forms:
form: commonalties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The common people; the commonality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.
In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
1906, Sinclair Lewis, "Unknown Undergraduates" first published in the Yale Literary Magazine, June, 1906, in The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904-1950, Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane (eds.), New York: Pocket Books, 1962, p. 122,
Besides the men who are unknown but important there is the commonalty, whom you regard as mere entities, whose very names you do not know, or will forget before your triennial.
gloss: A group of things having similar characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once: Sir Launcelot hath won the field whosoever say nay.
Second Citizen: Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?
First Citizen: Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.
The commonalty spoke of his mighty spear-thrust, of his deft sword-swing, the terror of his wrath, of the fury of his battle-lust, of his laughter and light joy, and the singing that was on his lips when his sword had the silence upon it.
gloss: The state or quality of having things in common.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Or is there some way in which the product of that solitude—writing—may none the less be profoundly social, rejoining the commonalty of society, and through its indirections and specificities being the most authentic contribution the writer can offer?
Some individuals fight the expectation that they ought to be part of any such "we," while others eagerly seek a sense of commonalty.
gloss: A shared feature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Observant visitors to any prison will quickly recognize commonalties in its inmate population. Not only do shared traits exist among the inmate population of any particular institution (intra-prison commonalties) but commonalties also exist among inmates nationwide (inter-prison commonalties).
Synonyms: canaille
commonality
commonalty
crowd
demos
everyone
general public
great unhosed
great unwashed
herd
hoi polloi
lower class
many
masses
mob
multitude
odds and sods
peasantry
plebs
populace
proletariat
rabble
rank and file
riffraff
third estate
trash
unwashed
unwashed masses
working class
Antonyms: aristocracy
elite
nobility
upper class
bourgeois
middle class
professional class
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