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1. | [ adjective ] belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public | |
Examples: | "for the common good" "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" |
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Related terms: | individual community communal joint commonality | |
2. | [ adjective ] of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual | |
Examples: | "the common man" "the common cold" "a common nuisance" "followed common procedure" "it is common knowledge" "the common housefly" |
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Related terms: | uncommon average democratic standard frequent general demotic grassroots usual ordinary commonness | |
3. | [ adjective ] common to or shared by two or more parties | |
Synonyms: | mutual | |
Examples: | "a common friend" "the mutual interests of management and labor" |
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Related terms: | shared | |
4. | [ adjective ] commonly encountered | |
Synonyms: | usual | |
Examples: | "a common (or familiar) complaint" "the usual greeting" |
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Related terms: | familiar | |
5. | [ adjective ] being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | |
Synonyms: | vulgar vernacular | |
Examples: | "common parlance" "a vernacular term" "vernacular speakers" "the vulgar tongue of the masses" "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" |
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Related terms: | informal | |
6. | [ adjective ] of or associated with the great masses of people | |
Synonyms: | vulgar unwashed plebeian | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | lowborn | |
7. | [ noun ] (geography) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | |
Synonyms: | park green commons | |
Examples: | "they went for a walk in the park" |
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Related terms: | tract village_green amusement_park Central_Park urban_area | |
8. | [ adjective ] of low or inferior quality or value | |
Synonyms: | coarse | |
Examples: | "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" |
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Related terms: | inferior | |
9. | [ adjective ] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | |
Synonyms: | vulgar coarse uncouth | |
Examples: | "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" "the vulgar display of the newly rich" |
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Related terms: | unrefined | |
10. | [ adjective ] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | |
Synonyms: | vulgar coarse uncouth rough-cut | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | unrefined | |
11. | [ adjective ] to be expected; standard | |
Synonyms: | simple | |
Examples: | "common decency" |
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Related terms: | ordinary | |
Similar spelling: |
come-on come_on Coman Cowman Connon commune come_in Cammon |