common
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"

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"

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"

Related terms: shared
4. [ adjective ] commonly encountered
Synonyms: usual
Examples:

"a common (or familiar) complaint" "the usual greeting"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

Related terms: unrefined
11. [ adjective ] to be expected; standard
Synonyms: simple
Examples:

"common decency"

Related terms: ordinary
Similar spelling:   come-on
  come_on
  Coman
  Cowman
  Connon
  commune
  come_in
  Cammon