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Definition of Common
1. Adjective. Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public. "Common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
Similar to: Communal, Public
Also: Joint
Derivative terms: Commonality, Commonness
Antonyms: Individual
2. Noun. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. "They went for a walk in the park"
Specialized synonyms: Amusement Park, Funfair, Pleasure Ground, Village Green
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
Group relationships: Populated Area, Urban Area
Specialized synonyms: Central Park
3. Adjective. Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual. "A common brand of soap"
Similar to: Average, Ordinary, Democratic, Popular, Demotic, Frequent, General, Grassroots, Standard
Also: Usual, Ordinary
Derivative terms: Commonality, Commonness
Antonyms: Uncommon
4. Adjective. Common to or shared by two or more parties. "The mutual interests of management and labor"
Similar to: Shared
Derivative terms: Commonality, Commonness, Mutuality, Mutuality
5. Adjective. Commonly encountered. "The usual greeting"
6. Adjective. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language. "The technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
7. Adjective. Of or associated with the great masses of people. "The unwashed masses"
Similar to: Lowborn
Derivative terms: Commonality, Commonness, Pleb, Plebeian, Vulgarize
8. Adjective. Of low or inferior quality or value. "Produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
9. Adjective. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste. "The vulgar display of the newly rich"
Similar to: Unrefined
Derivative terms: Coarseness, Commonality, Commonness, Uncouthness, Vulgarity, Vulgarize, Vulgarize
10. Adjective. To be expected; standard. "Common decency"
Definition of Common
1. a. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
2. n. The people; the community.
3. v. i. To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
Definition of Common
1. Adjective. Mutual; shared by more than one. ¹
2. Adjective. Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual. ¹
3. Adjective. Found in large numbers or in a large quantity. ¹
4. Adjective. Simple, ordinary or vulgar. ¹
5. Adjective. (grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns. ¹
6. Adjective. Of or pertaining to uncapitalized nouns in English, i.e., common nouns vs. proper nouns ¹
7. Adjective. vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name ¹
8. Noun. Mutual good, shared by more than one. ¹
9. Noun. A tract of land in common ownership; common land. ¹
10. Verb. (obsolete) To communicate (something). ¹
11. Verb. (obsolete) To converse, talk. ¹
12. Verb. (obsolete) To have sex. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Common
1. ordinary [adj -MONER, -MONEST] / a tract of publicly used land [n -S] - See also: ordinary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common
Literary usage of Common
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: Or, The Science of Quantity. An by Archibald Sandeman (1868)
"Any common measure of two whole expressions is a measure both of their sum and
of t/ieir difference. For if m be any common measure of two whole expressions ..."
2. Leviathan, Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
"T Hough nothing can be immortall, which mortals make; yet, if men had the use of
reason they pretend to, their common-wealths might be secured, at least, ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1848)
"this was all that any tenant could, in common justice, have required, before the
provision of the statute. It is now well settled in the English law, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"muft not contribute *: as in the moft regular gardens, Art can only reduce the
beauties of Nature to more regularity, and fuch a figure, which the common ..."