Definition of COMMONALTY

commonalty

Meanings

Plural: commonalties

Noun

  • a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
  • The common people; the commonality.
  • A group of things having similar characteristics.
  • A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
  • The state or quality of having things in common.
  • A shared feature.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

canaille, commonality, commonalty, commons, 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, bourgeois, elite, middle class, nobility, professional class, upper class

Scrabble Score: 19

commonalty is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
commonalty is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
commonalty is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 23

commonalty is a valid Words With Friends word