Definitions for common
common
com·mon
Spelling: [kom-uh n]
IPA: /ˈkɒm ən/
Common is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 45 anagrams from letters in common (cmmnoo).
Definitions for common
noun
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Often, commons. Chiefly New England. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town.
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Law. the right or liberty, in common with other persons, to take profit from the land or waters of another, as by pasturing animals on another's land (common of pasturage) or fishing in another's waters (common of piscary)
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commons, (used with a singular or plural verb)
the commonalty; the nonruling class.
the body of people not of noble birth or not ennobled, as represented in England by the House of Commons.
(initial capital letter) the representatives of this body.
(initial capital letter) the House of Commons.
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commons.
(used with a singular verb) a large dining room, especially at a university or college.
(usually used with a plural verb) British. food provided in such a dining room.
(usually used with a plural verb) food or provisions for any group.
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(sometimes initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical.
an office or form of service used on a festival of a particular kind.
the ordinary of the Mass, especially those parts sung by the choir.
the part of the missal and breviary containing Masses and offices of those saints assigned to them.
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Obsolete.
the community or public.
the common people.
Idioms
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in common, in joint possession or use; shared equally:
adjective
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belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question:
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pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public:
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joint; united:
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widespread; general; ordinary:
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of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar:
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hackneyed; trite.
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of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low:
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coarse; vulgar:
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lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary:
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Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected.
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Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches:
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Prosody. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short.
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Grammar.
not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms:
constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine:
noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female:
(of a noun) belonging to the common gender.
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Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities.
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of, relating to, or being common stock:
Origin of common
1250-1300; Middle English comun Anglo-French, Old French Latin commūnis common, presumably orig. “sharing common duties,” akin to mūnia duties of an office, mūnus task, duty, gift *moin-, cog
Examples for common
Such large sheets are common in Kobani, meant to protect fighters and civilians from the ever gazing eyes of ISIS snipers.
common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
They are money entrusted to him to be used for the common good.
They are valuable, but he can do but common things with them because he knows not their possibilities.
One of them common Pullmans is good enough fur Marthy and me.
Letting humans use their common sense is not an invitation to anarchy.
This was a common practice during the festival of Thargelia, in honour of Phœbus.
They called him a King or a prince and obeyed his orders for their own common benefit.
Finding the common bonds that help us realize that we have far more in common than that which separates us.
The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.