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Commoner vs False - What's the difference?

commoner | false |

As adjectives the difference between commoner and false

is that commoner is (common) while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As a noun commoner

is a member of the common people who holds no title or rank.

commoner

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(head)
  • (common)
  • Usage notes
    * The potential for confusion with use of the noun as an adjective, especially in the UK, makes this form less desirable. It is much less commonly used than "more common".

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia commoner) (en noun)
  • A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
  • (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
  • * Hallam
  • All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners , and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
  • (British, at Oxbridge universities) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
  • (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
  • Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Much good land might be gained from forests and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
  • (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
  • (Fuller)
  • (obsolete) A prostitute.
  • (Shakespeare)

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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