Commonage (Noun)
Meaning
Property held in common.
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- The community had traditionally used the land as a commonage for grazing their livestock, with no individual owning a specific plot.
- For centuries, the residents of the village shared a large area of woodland as a commonage, relying on it for timber, fuel, and hunting.
- Before the enclosure movement, much of the English countryside was designated as commonage, available for all locals to use for farming and livestock.
- The small town had a long-standing system of commonage for the coastal fishing grounds, where anyone from the community could fish without restrictions.
- Diverting attention from the increasingly heated issue of urbanization, the mayor refocused the city's planning policies on addressing the dwindling commonage lands on the city's outskirts.