Definition of comon

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1. common [ a ] 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"

Used in print:

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

The terms are generally taken_for_granted as though they referred to direct and axiomatic elements in the common experience of all .

In such a world the words `` matter '' and `` spirit '' both referred to directly known realities in the common experience of all .

The conversation of the characters creates an atmosphere suggesting the usual mixture of pleasures , foibles , irritations , and concerns which would characterize the common life of a normal village in any age .

This is not to attempt to say what spirit is , but only to employ a commonly used word to designate or simply identify a common experience .

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

Yet this utterly individual historical person must also contain within himself the common history of mankind .

Synonyms common Related Terms individual community communal joint commonality

2. common [ a ] 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"

Used in print:

(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way , Roy_Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art .

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

One of the most common of camp maladies was diarrhoea .

Men of more delicate sensibilities referred to this condition as `` looseness_of_the_bowels '' ; but a much more common designation was `` the_sh-ts '' .

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

But what a super Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud_beplastered arguments used so freely , particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes , in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy .

(Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as_long_as the market_price for common lead at New_York , New_York , as determined by the Secretary , is below 14 - 1 2 cents per pound , and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14 - 1 2 cents per pound and the average market_price for the month in_which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary .

Synonyms common Related Terms uncommon average democratic standard frequent general demotic grassroots usual ordinary commonness

3. common [ a ] common to or shared by two or more parties
Examples: "a common friend" "the mutual interests of management and labor"

Used in print:

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

`` When you marry , you want to have things in common '' , a girl said , `` and it 's hard when you do n't marry someone with your own background '' .

(R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)

They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in_this fatal embrace .

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

However , it is important to trace the philosophy of the French_Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former .

(Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz_musicians , their aims , their problems - the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' - and seemed a promising vehicle , for the two men shared a common interest in jazz .

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage , more troublesome , and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate .

Synonyms common mutual Related Terms shared

4. common [ a ] commonly encountered
Examples: "a common (or familiar) complaint" "the usual greeting"

Used in print:

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

To_be_sure , when this is pointed_out , a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul 's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First_Corinthians .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms , but about 1930 it was in_favor_of games .

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

The basic mystery of dreams , which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream , is in the fact that they are original , visual continuities .

Synonyms common usual Related Terms familiar

5. common [ a ] being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
Examples: "common parlance" "a vernacular term" "vernacular speakers" "the vulgar tongue of the masses" "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

Used in print:

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

In common parlance they would be described as misses - misinterpreters , misunderstanders , misdirectors and kindred misdeeds .

Synonyms common vulgar vernacular Related Terms informal

6. common [ a ] of or associated with the great masses of people
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"

Used in print:

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

The_Charles_Men has a tremendous range of characters , of common folk even more_than of major figures .

Synonyms common unwashed vulgar plebeian Related Terms lowborn

7. common [ n ] a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
Examples: "they went for a walk in the park"

Used in print:

(Howard Fast, April Morning....)

It was my initiation to war and the insane symphony war plays ; for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; but this grinning , broken head , not ten feet away from me , was the sharp definition of what my reality had become .

Synonyms park green common commons Related Terms tract village_green amusement_park Central_Park urban_area

8. common [ a ] of low or inferior quality or value
Examples: "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

Synonyms common coarse Related Terms inferior

9. common [ a ] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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"

Synonyms vulgar coarse uncouth common Related Terms unrefined

10. common [ a ] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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"

Synonyms vulgar coarse uncouth rough-cut common Related Terms unrefined

11. common [ a ] to be expected; standard
Examples: "common decency"

Synonyms simple common Related Terms ordinary

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