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commonhood

commonhood noun: the state or condition of being common; commonness.

Noun

commonhood (countable and uncountable, plural commonhoods)

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being common; commonness.
    • You need to know how to succeed at being common. Commonhood has its perils, you know.2012, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust
  2. That which is common or held in common; community; commonality.
    • Tended by weeping burghers, the once privileged and stately commonhood was banished beyond the gates; its nightly return to its wonted shelter being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a royal residence.1855, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
    • It includes the commonhood of humanity.1926, A Set of Holiday Sermons, page 48

Examples of commonhood in a sentence

  • In their maps of the ten Plains states, the Poppers identified 109 counties on the road to Buffalo Commonhood.2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier:
  • […] social change has placed children and youth in a situation involving new commonhoods and differences.2005, J. Qvortrup, Studies in Modern Childhood, page 23:
  • By establishing genetic information as a collectivizing rather than an individualizing force, a genetic commonhood is created that expresses a universalist body politics.2018, Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Routledge Handbook of Genomics:

Forms of commonhood

pluralcommonhoods

Origin of commonhood

From common + -hood. Compare Middle English communhed, communehede (“commonhood, community”).

Questions about commonhood

What does commonhood mean?
Commonhood means the state or condition of being common; commonness.
How do you use commonhood in a sentence?
In their maps of the ten Plains states, the Poppers identified 109 counties on the road to Buffalo Commonhood.
What part of speech is commonhood?
Commonhood is a noun.
What is the plural of commonhood?
The plural of commonhood is commonhoods.

Words near commonhood in the dictionary

  1. commonfolks
  2. commonhold
  3. commonholder
  4. commonholders
  5. commonholds
  6. commonhood
  7. commonhoods
  8. commoning
  9. commonious
  10. commonisation
  11. commonisations

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