Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

common land

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon -land
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on.

British usage; Countable; Uncountable

noun

collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries.

British usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

common lands (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

enclosure pasturage pastureland

Synonyms

common commons commonage

Questions

What does common land mean?
an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on.

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