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gentleman-commoner
[ jen-tl-muhn-kom-uh-ner ]
noun
, plural gen·tle·men-com·mon·ers.
- (formerly) a member of a class of commoners enjoying special privileges at Oxford University.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gentleman-commoner1
First recorded in 1680–90
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Example Sentences
Gibbon was a gentleman commoner, and was permitted by the easy discipline of Magdalen to behave just as he pleased.
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A gentleman commoner of Queen's was president of a 'hellfire club,' and brutal horseplay was still practised upon the weaker lads.
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The next ten years passed in a round of gaiety which took the form of courtship by no one under the rank of gentleman commoner.
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Braburn, a gentleman commoner of Lincoln college, gave a silver arrow to be shot for by the archers of the university of Oxford.
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He was a commoner of Trinity Colledge in Oxford.
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