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commonable

Syllables: com·mon·able

commonable adjective: owned, managed or used in common.

Adjective

commonable (not comparable)

  1. Owned, managed or used in common.
    • 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.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
    • The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste...1824, Humphry W[illiam] Woolrych, “Of Pleading Rights of Common, etc.”, in A Treatise on the Law of Rights of Common, London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, law booksellers, 43, Fleet Street, →OCLC...
  2. Of an animal: that may be pastured on common land.

commonable meaning in Tamil

commonable in Tamil

பொதுவுரிமையாகக் கொள்ளப்பட்ட

Origin of commonable

From common + -able.

Words formed from commonable

Questions about commonable

What does commonable mean?
Commonable means owned, managed or used in common.
What is commonable in Tamil?
Commonable in Tamil is பொதுவுரிமையாகக் கொள்ளப்பட்ட. See Commonable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commonable?
Commonable is an adjective.

Words near commonable in the dictionary

  1. common-sensical
  2. common-site picketing
  3. common-situs picketing
  4. common-wealth
  5. common-wealths
  6. commonable
  7. commonage
  8. commonages
  9. commonalities
  10. commonality
  11. commonalties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commonable (page history and authors); commonable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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