fellow-commoner
fellow-commoner noun: a student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.
Noun
fellow-commoner (plural fellow-commoners)
- A student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.
- There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for...1886, Rev. Morris Joseph Fuller, “College Days (Sydney-Sussex). 1629-1631”, in The Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller, D.D., 2nd edition, volume 1, London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey...
Forms of fellow-commoner
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Questions about fellow-commoner
- What does fellow-commoner mean?
- Fellow-commoner means a student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.
- What part of speech is fellow-commoner?
- Fellow-commoner is a noun.
- What is the plural of fellow-commoner?
- The plural of fellow-commoner is fellow-commoners.
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