common land meaning
ENWCommon land
- Common land (a common) is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel.
- A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is called a commoner.
- This article deals mainly with common land in England, Wales and Scotland, where the extent is much reduced due to enclosure of commons from the millions of acres that existed until the 17th century.
- NounPREcom-SUF-land
- (Britain, Ireland) 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 (often shortened to common).
- The common land up at Chailey's always good for a walk.
- (Britain, Ireland) collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries.
- I've always grazed my animals on the common land and I'm not going to stop now.
- (Britain, Ireland) 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 (often shortened to common).
Definition of common land in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Nouns
Other Vocabulary
- en common eland
- en common man
- en common law
- en common ling
- en common-eland
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "common land" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum.