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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



... have it that the ancient world had a civilization much higher than the modern and was more advanced in knowledge. It is claimed that steam engines and electricity were common in Egypt thousands of years ago and that literature, science, art, and architecture flourished as never since. Certain it is that the Pyramids were for a long time the most solid "Skyscrapers" in ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing
... named Argus grayi, and which inhabits Borneo, but the type of a new genus of the family Phasianid. This Gallinacean, in fact, which Mr. Maingonnat has given up to the Museum of Natural History, has not, like the common Argus of Borneo, excessively elongated secondaries; and its tail is not formed of normal rectrices, from the middle of which spring two very long feathers, a little curved and arranged like a roof; but it consists of twelve wide plane feathers, regularly tapering, and ornamented with ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various
... Earthling a raving maniac, and Nrana made a very common error, an error more civilized beings than he have often made. He thought the paranoia was an improvement over the wider madness. He talked on, hoping the Earthling would talk too, and he did not recognize the danger of ...
— Happy Ending • Fredric Brown
... drawing-room they found the Baron and his two guests chatting amicably. Gerfaut had his forehead tied up with a black silk band which gave him a slight resemblance to Cupid with his bandage just off his eyes. His sparkling glance showed that blindness was not what there was in common between him and the charming little god. After the first greetings, Mademoiselle de Corandeuil, who was always strict as to etiquette, and who thought that Titania had been a rather unceremonious master of ceremonies ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard
... must have a Mouse; with a Mole, a heavy mass, the work of removal would perhaps present too much difficulty. To obtain the Mouse I place my friends and neighbours under requisition; they laugh at my whim but none the less proffer their traps. Yet, the moment a Mouse is needed, that very common animal becomes rare. Braving decorum in his speech, which follows the Latin of his ancestors, the Provencal says, but even more crudely than in my translation: "If you look for dung, the ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre


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