commoner
41fellow commoner — noun : an undergraduate at Oxford, Cambridge, or Trinity College, Dublin, formerly permitted to dine at the same table as the fellows of his college * * * fellow commoner, one of a former privileged class of undergraduates in certain British… …
42gentleman-commoner — noun (plural gentlemen commoners) Date: 1687 any of a privileged class of commoners formerly required to pay higher fees than ordinary commoners at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge …
43gentleman-commoner — /jen tl meuhn kom euh neuhr/, n., pl. gentlemen commoners. (formerly) a member of a class of commoners enjoying special privileges at Oxford University. [1680 90] * * * …
44GREAT COMMONER, WILLIAM PITT — who became Earl Chatham (q.v. CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT) …
45American Commoner — Wi l l iam Jennings Bryan …
46Great Commoner — Henry Clay, William Ewart Gladstone, William Pitt (the Elder Pitt also known as the Earl of Chatham), and Thomas Paine …
47The Great Commoner — Wi l l iam Jennings Bryan …
48fellow commoner — British an empty bottle Originally, an 18th century student at Cambridge or Oxford University who was wealthy and thus supposedly empty headed as he did not need to work or become a parson. Still heard in some academic circles …
49gentleman-commoner — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun (plural gentlemen commoners) : one of a privileged class of commoners formerly required to pay higher fees than ordinary commoners at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge …
50fellow-commoner — fellow commˈoner noun At Cambridge and elsewhere, one of a privileged class of undergraduates, dining at the fellows table • • • Main Entry: ↑fellow …