Commons

Noun
commons


 * 1) A dining hall, usually at a college or university.
 * 2) A central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area, a common.
 * The Renaissance festival started with the "peasants" meeting in the commons.
 * The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.
 * The commons of New England towns are important contributors to their charm.
 * 1)  The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.
 * "The tragedy of the commons" is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.
 * "The tragedy of the commons" is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.

Thesaurus
C ration, K ration, allotment, allowance, board, bourgeoisie, cafeteria, common, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, emergency rations, field rations, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, meals, mess, mess hall, messroom, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, paradise, park, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, pleasance, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, proletariat, public park, rank and file, rations, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, shopkeepers, short commons, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, tucker, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

Translations

 * Dutch: volksplaats


 * German:


 * Dutch:, algemeen goed
 * German:


 * Serbo-Croatian: javno dobro, opće dobro


 * : communs


 * : Procomún

Related terms

 * common
 * digital commons
 * commoner