commonalty
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
commonality, commons, canaille, 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, bourgeois, elite, middle class, nobility, professional class, upper class
Scrabble Score: 19
commonalty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcommonalty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
commonalty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary