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fellow-commoners

fellow-commoners is the plural of fellow-commoner.

Meaning of fellow-commoner

Noun

fellow-commoner (plural fellow-commoners)

  1. (Cambridge University) 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...

Questions about fellow-commoners

What is fellow-commoners the plural of?
Fellow-commoners is the plural of fellow-commoner.

Words near fellow-commoners in the dictionary

  1. fellow traveler
  2. fellow travelers
  3. fellow traveller
  4. fellow travellers
  5. fellow-commoner
  6. fellow-commoners
  7. fellow-feeling
  8. fellow-feelings
  9. fellow-man
  10. fellow-me-lad
  11. fellow-me-lads

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