1. (adj.)common belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common objectives.
2. common pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture: a common language.
3. common joint; united: a common defense.
4. common widespread; general; universal: common knowledge.
5. common of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common mistake.
6. common of mediocre or inferior quality; mean: a rough, common fabric.
7. common coarse; vulgar: common manners.
8. common lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; ordinary: a common soldier.
9. common in keeping with accepted standards; fundamental: common decency.
10. common (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short.
11. common (of a grammatical case) fulfilling different functions that in some languages would require different inflected forms: English nouns used as subject or object are in the common case.
12. common of or pertaining to a word or gender that may refer to either a male or female: Frenchélève “pupil” has common gender.
13. common constituting a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Dutch nouns are either common or neuter in gender.
14. common bearing a similar mathematical relation to two or more entities.
15. common of or pertaining to common stock.
16. (n.)common Often, commons. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, as a central square or park in a city or town.
17. common the right, in common with other persons, to pasture animals on another's land or to fish in another's waters.
24. common (usu. with a pl. v.) food or provisions for any group.
25. common (sometimes cap.)
26. common an ecclesiastical office or form of service used on a festival of a particularkind.
27. common the ordinary of the Mass, esp. those parts sung by the choir.
Definition of 'COmmon'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)park, commons, common, green a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area "they went for a walk in the park"
2. (adj)common 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"
3. (adj)common 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"
4. (adj)common, mutual common to or shared by two or more parties "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
5. (adj)common, usual commonly encountered "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
6. (adj)common, vernacular, vulgar 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"
7. (adj)common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed of or associated with the greatmasses 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"
8. (adj)coarse, common of low or inferiorquality or value "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
9. (adj)coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar lacking refinement or cultivation or taste "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "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"
10. (adj)common to be expected; standard "common decency"
1. (adjective)common seen, done, or used frequently a common problem; It's common for students to lose sleep during exams.; a disease common among older men
2. common shared by people or things a common goal; characteristics common to both species of plant
3. common common ground ideas or goals shared by people or groups who disagree to try to find common ground
4. common common knowledge sth that everyone knows It's common knowledge that they hate each other.
5. common not special at all; = ordinary a common criminal; common courtesy/decency; plants commonly found in the Northeast; the water beetle, commonly known as a "backswimmer"; a belief commonly held in the area
7. common have sth in common to share the samebelief or characteristic I don't have a lot in common with my brother.; a trait that the two cultures have in common
2. (noun)COmmon 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
3. (noun)COmmon 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 sameright
5. COmmon 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 CommonPrayer
6. COmmon often met with; usual; frequent; customary
7. COmmon not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense