[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

common \com"mon\, a. compar. commoner; superl. commonest.
   oe. commun, comon, of. comun, f. commun, fr. l. communis;
   com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. skr. mi to make
   fast, set up, build, goth. gamains common, g. gemein, and e.
   mean low, common. cf. immunity, commune, n.  v.
   1. belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than
      one; as, you and i have a common interest in the property.
      1913 webster

            though life and sense be common to men and brutes.
                                                  --sir m. hale.
      1913 webster

   2. belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the
      members of a class, considered together; general; public;
      as, properties common to all plants; the common schools;
      the book of common prayer.
      1913 webster

            such actions as the common good requireth. --hooker.
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            the common enemy of man.              --shak.
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   3. often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
      1913 webster

            grief more than common grief.         --shak.
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   4. not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary;
      plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
      1913 webster

            the honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life.
                                                  --w. irving.
      1913 webster

            this fact was infamous
            and ill beseeming any common man,
            much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --shak.
      1913 webster

            above the vulgar flight of common souls. --a.
                                                  murphy.
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   5. profane; polluted. obs.
      1913 webster

            what god hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                  --acts x. 15.
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   6. given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
      1913 webster

            a dame who herself was common.        --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   common bar law same as blank bar, under blank.

   common barrator law, one who makes a business of
      instigating litigation.

   common bench, a name sometimes given to the english court
      of common pleas.

   common brawler law, one addicted to public brawling and
      quarreling. see brawler.

   common carrier law, one who undertakes the office of
      carrying goods or persons for hire. such a carrier is
      bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and
      when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all
      losses and injuries to the goods, except those which
      happen in consequence of the act of god, or of the enemies
      of the country, or of the owner of the property himself.
      

   common chord mus., a chord consisting of the fundamental
      tone, with its third and fifth.

   common council, the representative legislative body, or
      the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or
      other municipal corporation.

   common crier, the crier of a town or city.

   common divisor math., a number or quantity that divides
      two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a
      common measure.

   common gender gram., the gender comprising words that may
      be of either the masculine or the feminine gender.

   common law, a system of jurisprudence developing under the
      guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and
      reasonable rule to each litigated case. it may be
      superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls.
      --wharton.

   note: it is by others defined as the unwritten law
         especially of england, the law that receives its
         binding force from immemorial usage and universal
         reception, as ascertained and expressed in the
         judgments of the courts. this term is often used in
         contradistinction from statute law. many use it to
         designate a law common to the whole country. it is also
         used to designate the whole body of english or other
         law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local,
         civil, admiralty, equity, etc. see law.

   common lawyer, one versed in common law.

   common lewdness law, the habitual performance of lewd
      acts in public.

   common multiple arith. see under multiple.

   common noun gram., the name of any one of a class of
      objects, as distinguished from a proper noun the name of
      a particular person or thing.

   common nuisance law, that which is deleterious to the
      health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at
      large.

   common pleas, one of the three superior courts of common
      law at westminster, presided over by a chief justice and
      four puisne judges. its jurisdiction is confined to civil
      matters. courts bearing this title exist in several of the
      united states, having, however, in some cases, both civil
      and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole state.
      in other states the jurisdiction of the common pleas is
      limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county
      court. its powers are generally defined by statute.

   common prayer, the liturgy of the church of england, or of
      the protestant episcopal church of the united states,
      which all its clergy are enjoined to use. it is contained
      in the book of common prayer.

   common school, a school maintained at the public expense,
      and open to all.

   common scold law, a woman addicted to scolding
      indiscriminately, in public.

   common seal, a seal adopted and used by a corporation.

   common sense.
      a a supposed sense which was held to be the common bond
          of all the others. obs. --trench.
      b sound judgment. see under sense.

   common time mus., that variety of time in which the
      measure consists of two or of four equal portions.

   in common, equally with another, or with others; owned,
      shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or
      affected equally.

   out of the common, uncommon; extraordinary.

   tenant in common, one holding real or personal property in
      common with others, having distinct but undivided
      interests. see joint tenant, under joint.

   to make common cause with, to join or ally one's self with.

   syn: general; public; popular; national; universal; frequent;
        ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar;
        mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. see
        mutual, ordinary, general.
        1913 webster
see also:
commoner commonest immunity commune common bar blank bar 
blank common barrator common bench common brawler brawler 
common carrier common chord common council common crier common divisor 
common gender common law statute law law common lawyer 
common lewdness common multiple multiple common noun common nuisance 
common pleas county court common prayer common school common scold 
common seal common sense sense common time in common 
out of the common tenant in common joint tenant joint to make common cause with 
mutual ordinary general 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

commoner \com"moner\, n.
   1. one of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
      1913 webster

            all below them the peers even their children, were
            commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each
            other.                                --hallam.
      1913 webster

   2. a member of the house of commons.
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   3. one who has a joint right in common ground.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   4. one sharing with another in anything. obs. --fuller.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   6. a prostitute. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
pensioner 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

commoner
     n : a person who holds no title syn: common man, common
         person
see also:
common man common person 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

55 moby thesaurus words for "commoner":
   cockney, everyman, john smith, average man, bourgeois, bourgeoisie,
   common man, common people, common run, common sort, commonage,
   commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, exhibitioner,
   laborers, linendrapers, little fellow, little man, lower classes,
   lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class,
   middle orders, optime, ordinary people, passman, peasantry,
   pensioner, plain folks, plain people, pleb, plebeian, proletarian,
   proletariat, questionist, rank and file, roturier, servitor,
   shopkeepers, sizar, small tradesmen, sophister, the lower cut,
   the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class,
   upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people,
   wrangler

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