Lexic.us

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"

2. Noun. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. "They went for a walk in the park"

3. Adjective. Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual. "A common brand of soap"

4. Adjective. Common to or shared by two or more parties. "The mutual interests of management and labor"

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"

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"

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

commoditized commoditizes commoditizing commodity commodity brokerage commodity chemical commodity exchange commodity exchanges commodity market commodity meat

commodo commodore commodore admiral commodore admirals commodores common-and-garden common-eland common-gull common-law common-law(p)

common-law marriage common-or-garden common-sense common-sensical common-source epidemic common American shad common European ash common European dogwood common European earwig

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 ..."

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