| Commons 1. (n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 2. (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. 3. (n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. 4. (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons. 5. (n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground. Thesaurus Entries C ration, K ration, allotment, allowance, board, bourgeoisie, cafeteria, common, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, emergency rations, field rations, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, meals, mess, mess hall, messroom, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, paradise, park, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, pleasance, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, proletariat, public park, rank and file, rations, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, shopkeepers, short commons, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, tucker, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people |