commonalty

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English comunalte, communalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās. Some senses are influenced by commonality. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏm'ənəlti, IPA(key): /ˈkɒmənəlti/ === Noun === commonalty (countable and uncountable, plural commonalties) The common people; the commonality. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commonalty 1906, Sinclair Lewis, "Unknown Undergraduates" first published in the Yale Literary Magazine, June, 1906, in The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904-1950, Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane (eds.), New York: Pocket Books, 1962, p. 122, Besides the men who are unknown but important there is the commonalty, whom you regard as mere entities, whose very names you do not know, or will forget before your triennial. A group of things having similar characteristics. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners. The state or quality of having things in common. A shared feature. ==== Translations ====