(UK, education, historical) At the University of Oxford, a student ranking above commoners but below noblemen.

(historical) A society of lawyers practising civil law in London, England, incorporated by royal charter in 1768.

(obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.

A set of licences intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.

plural of fellow-commoner

(Cambridge University) A student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.

(ecology, economics, politics, social criticism) A situation in which unmanaged use of a shared resource (such as the atmosphere or an ocean) by a number of participants results in the unintended ruin or total consumption of that resource.

(Oxford University) A gown worn as part of subfusc by any undergraduate who has not been awarded a scholar's gown.

plural of commoner's gown

plural of house of commons