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 Definitions of COmmon  [ˈkɒm ən]  

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Definition of 'COmmon' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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.

18.  common
commons,

19.  common
the common people; commonalty.

20.  common
the body of people not of noble birth, as represented by the House of Commons.

21.  common
(cap.) (used with a sing. v.) the House of Commons.

22.  common
commons,

23.  common
(used with a sing. v.) a large dining room, esp. at a university or college.

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 particular kind.

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 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"

8. (adj) coarse, common
of low or inferior quality 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"


Definition of 'COmmon' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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

6. (noun) common
an area of open public land in a town or city
walking on Boston Common

7.  common
have sth in common
to share the same belief or characteristic
I don't have a lot in common with my brother.; a trait that the two cultures have in common


Definition of 'COmmon' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) COmmon
the people; the community

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 same right

4.  COmmon
belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property

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 Common Prayer

6.  COmmon
often met with; usual; frequent; customary

7.  COmmon
not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense

8.  COmmon
profane; polluted

9.  COmmon
given to habits of lewdness; prostitute

10. (verb) COmmon
to converse together; to discourse; to confer

11. (verb) COmmon
to participate

12. (verb) COmmon
to have a joint right with others in common ground

13. (verb) COmmon
to board together; to eat at a table in common


Translation of 'COmmon' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: seen or happening often; quite normal or usual
a common occurrence; These birds are not so common nowadays.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: gewoon Arabic flag Arabic: شائِع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: обичаен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: comum Czech flag Czech: běžný German flag German: gewöhnlich
Danish flag Danish: almindelig Greek flag Greek: κοινός, συνηθισμένος Spanish flag Spanish: corriente
Estonian flag Estonian: üldine, tavaline Farsi flag Farsi: معمول؛ عادی Finnish flag Finnish: yleinen
French flag French: courant, banal Hebrew flag Hebrew: נָפוֹץ Hindi flag Hindi: सार्वजनिक
Croatian flag Croatian: običan, uobičajen Hungarian flag Hungarian: közönséges Indonesian flag Indonesian: biasa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: algengur Italian flag Italian: comune Japanese flag Japanese: ありふれた
Korean flag Korean: 흔한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: įprastas, plačiai paplitę Latvian flag Latvian: parasts; vienkāršs; izpla
Malay flag Malay: biasa Dutch flag Dutch: gewoon Norwegian flag Norwegian: vanlig, alminnelig
Polish flag Polish: pospolity Persian flag Persian: معمول؛ عادی Pashto flag Pashto: عمومى، په ټولو پورې مربوط
Portuguese flag Portuguese: vulgar Romanian flag Romanian: obişnuit, banal Russian flag Russian: обычный
Slovak flag Slovak: bežný Slovenian flag Slovenian: običajen Serbian flag Serbian: čest
Swedish flag Swedish: vanlig Thai flag Thai: ที่เกิดขึ้นทุกวัน Turkish flag Turkish: yaygın, çokça/sıkça görül
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 通常的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: загальний; звичайний Urdu flag Urdu: عام ، عمومی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thông thường Chinese flag Chinese: 通常的

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