What does commoner mean?
Word: Commoner
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Commoner means a person who does not belong to a royal or noble family; an ordinary member of the public.
Antonyms: noble
How do you spell commoner?
Syllables: com - mon - er
Tricky part: The m is doubled in the middle, and only the first one is heard clearly. Comoner, with one m, is the usual slip.
Watch out for: comoner, commonner
Memory tip: Commoner has the same double m as comment and commerce.
Commoner in a sentence
Example 1: In the folk tale, a commoner saves the kingdom with a clever plan.
Example 2: The old palace in Mysore is now open to every commoner who buys a ticket.
Example 3: The story tells of a prince who swapped clothes with a commoner for a day.
Fun Fact
Commoner can also be an adjective: it is a form of common, so you can say that sparrows are commoner than eagles in most towns.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
commoner
a) citizen
b) peasant
c) villager
d) aristocrat
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d) aristocrat. A peasant, a citizen and a villager can all be ordinary people; an aristocrat belongs to the highest social class.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
common___
a) ar
b) or
c) er
d) our
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c) er. The ending here is the one in farmer and teacher, the most common way to name a person in English.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) peasent
b) commoner
c) villiger
d) nobelman
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b) commoner. Nobleman has le after the b, peasant ends in ant, and villager has an a before the g.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
nomroecm
a) commoner
b) commuter
c) commander
d) commence
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a) commoner. Commuter needs a u and a t, commander an a and a d, and commence a c and a second e, so commoner is the fit.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In a story about kings and queens, a commoner would be ____.
a) the queen of a nearby land
b) the eldest son of the king
c) a duke who owns a castle
d) an ordinary person from the town
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d) an ordinary person from the town
2. When a prince marries a commoner, his bride ____.
a) was raised inside the palace
b) already rules another country
c) has a title from birth
d) was not born into a royal family
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d) was not born into a royal family
