(UK, education, historical) At the University of Oxford, a student paying higher fees and ranking above commoners, but below noblemen.
Unfortunately for the college, there were a very large proportion of the gentleman-commoners.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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