Common

['kɒmən] or ['kɑmən]

Definition

(adj.) having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; 'the common man'; 'a common sailor'; 'the common cold'; 'a common nuisance'; 'followed common procedure'; 'it is common knowledge that she lives alone'; 'the common housefly'; 'a common brand of soap' .

(adj.) belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; 'for the common good'; 'common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community' .

(adj.) commonly encountered; 'a common (or familiar) complaint'; 'the usual greeting' .

(adj.) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; 'common parlance'; 'a vernacular term'; 'vernacular speakers'; 'the vulgar tongue of the masses'; 'the technical and vulgar names for an animal species' .

(adj.) of or associated with the great masses of people; 'the common people in those days suffered greatly'; 'behavior that branded him as common'; 'his square plebeian nose'; 'a vulgar and objectionable person'; 'the unwashed masses' .

(adj.) to be expected; standard; 'common decency' .

(adj.) common to or shared by two or more parties; 'a common friend'; 'the mutual interests of management and labor' .

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Definition

(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

(v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

(v.) Profane; polluted.

(v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

(n.) The people; the community.

(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

(v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

(v. i.) To participate.

(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Edited by Adela

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Public, belonging to all, for the use of all.[2]. General, universal, used by all.[3]. Usual, frequent, habitual, customary, every-day, often met with.[4]. Trite, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, commonplace, not new, worn out.[5]. Ordinary, vulgar, low, inferior, not distinguished (by high birth, attainments or character).

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ordinary, familiar, habitual, everyday, frequent, coarse, vulgar, low, mean,universal

ANT:Unusual, exceptional, scarce, rare, uncommon, refined, partial, infrequent,sporadic, egregious, excellent

Typist: Winfred

Definition

adj. belonging equally to more than one: public: general: usual: frequent: ordinary: easy to be had: of little value: vulgar: of low degree.—n. (Shak.) the commonalty: a tract of open land used in common by the inhabitants of a town parish &c.—v.i. (Shak.) to share.—adj. Common′able held in common.—ns. Comm′onage right of pasturing on a common: the right of using anything in common: a common; Comm′onalty the general body of the people without any distinction of rank or authority; Comm′oner one of the common people as opposed to the nobles: a member of the House of Commons: at Oxford a student who pays for his commons.—adv. Comm′only.—ns. Comm′onness; Comm′onplace a common topic or subject: a platitude: a memorandum: a note.—adj. common: hackneyed.—v.i. to make notes: to put in a commonplace-book.—n. Comm′onplace-book a note or memorandum book.—n.pl. Comm′ons the common people: their representatives—i.e. the lower House of Parliament or House of Commons: common land: food at a common table: at Oxford rations served at a fixed rate from the college buttery: food in general rations.—n. Comm′on-sense average understanding: good sense or practical sagacity: the opinion of a community: the universally admitted impressions of mankind.—Common Bench Common Pleas one of the divisions of the High Court of Justice; Common forms the ordinary clauses which are of frequent occurrence in identical terms in writs and deeds; Common law in England the ancient customary law of the land; Common Prayer (Book of) the liturgy of the Church of England; Common-riding the Scotch equivalent of Beating the Bounds (see Beat); Common room in schools colleges &c. a room to which the members have common access.—In common together: equally with others.—Make common cause with to cast in one's lot with: to have the same interests and aims with.—Philosophy of common-sense that school of philosophy which takes the universally admitted impressions of mankind as corresponding to the facts of things without any further scrutiny.—Short commons scant fare insufficient supply of rations.—The common that which is common or usual; The common good the interest of the community at large: the corporate property of a burgh in Scotland; The common people the people in general.

Editor: Rhoda