common land

1. 1.

   a pasture subject to common use

   Synonymscommons

   Broaderpasture

Questions about common land

What does common land mean?

common land means "a pasture subject to common use".

What is another word for common land?

Close synonyms include commons. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common land a common word?

common land is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.