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Common   /kˈɑmən/   Listen
Common

adjective
(compar. commoner; superl. commonest)
1.
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.
Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.  "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"
3.
Common to or shared by two or more parties.  Synonym: mutual.  "The mutual interests of management and labor"
4.
Commonly encountered.  Synonym: usual.  "The usual greeting"
5.
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.  Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar.  "A vernacular term" , "Vernacular speakers" , "The vulgar tongue of the masses" , "The technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
6.
Of or associated with the great masses of people.  Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar.  "Behavior that branded him as common" , "His square plebeian nose" , "A vulgar and objectionable person" , "The unwashed masses"
7.
Of low or inferior quality or value.  Synonym: coarse.  "Produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
8.
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.  Synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar.  "Behavior that branded him as common" , "An untutored and uncouth human being" , "An uncouth soldier--a real tough guy" , "Appealing to the vulgar taste for violence" , "The vulgar display of the newly rich"
9.
To be expected; standard.
noun
1.
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.  Synonyms: commons, green, park.



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"Common" Quotes from Famous Books



... England must be when in leaf. The old gentleman's admiration of the increasing signs of what he called civilisation, as we approached London, became quite eloquent; but the first view of the city from Blackheath (which, by the bye, is a fine common, surrounded with villas and handsome houses) overpowered his faculties, and I shall never forget the impression it made on myself. The sun was declined towards the horizon; vast masses of dark low-hung clouds were mingled with the smoky canopy, ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt
... in all the relations of private life. Certain of the strictures here alluded to, were petty, coarse, and uncandid; and with this observation they are dismissed from further notice. Sir William Follett had undoubtedly his shortcomings, in common with every one of his fellow men; and, as a small set-off against his many excellences of temper and character, one or two must be glanced at by any one essaying to present to the public, however imperfectly, a just account of this ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various
... furrowing its pebbles, must have borne heavily on its comparatively fragile shells. If rocks and pebbles did not escape, the shells must have fared but hardly. And very hardly they have fared: the rather unpleasant casualty of being crushed to death must have been a greatly more common one in those days than in even the present age of railways and machinery. The reader, by passing half a bushel of the common shells of our shores through a barley-mill, as a preliminary operation in the process, and by next subjecting ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... interests in common. When we lived in town we belonged to the same societies, and worked for the same charities. It is interesting to remember old days, and tell each other the latest news we have heard about ...
— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... conventional shape. My sisters, whose fingers had been educated, called my sewing "gobblings." I grew disgusted with it myself, and gave away all my pieces except the pretty sea-moss pattern, which I was not willing to see patched up with common calico. It was evident that I should never ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom


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