common (ˈkɒmən
)
Definitions
adjective
- belonging to or shared by two or more people ⇒
common property
- belonging to or shared by members of one or more nations or communities; public ⇒
a common culture
- of ordinary standard; average ⇒
common decency
- prevailing; widespread ⇒
common opinion
- widely known or frequently encountered; ordinary ⇒
a common brand of soap
- widely known and notorious ⇒
a common nuisance
- derogatory considered by the speaker to be low-class, vulgar, or coarse ⇒
a common accent
- (prenominal) having no special distinction, rank, or status ⇒
the common man
- mathematics
- having a specified relationship with a group of numbers or quantities ⇒
common denominator
- (of a tangent) tangential to two or more circles
- having a specified relationship with a group of numbers or quantities ⇒
- prosody (of a syllable) able to be long or short, or (in nonquantitative verse) stressed or unstressed
- grammar (in certain languages) denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns, esp one that includes both masculine and feminine referents ⇒
Latin sacerdos is common
- anatomy
- having branches ⇒
the common carotid artery
- serving more than one function ⇒
the common bile duct
- having branches ⇒
- Christianity of or relating to the common of the Mass or divine office
- See common or garden
noun
- (sometimes plural) a tract of open public land, esp one now used as a recreation area
- law the right to go onto someone else's property and remove natural products, as by pasturing cattle or fishing (esp in the phrase right of common)
- Christianity
- a form of the proper of the Mass used on festivals that have no special proper of their own
- the ordinary of the Mass
- archaic the ordinary people; the public, esp those undistinguished by rank or title
- See in common
See also
commonsAlternative Forms
ˈcommonness nounWord Origin
C13: from Old French commun, from Latin commūnis general, universalSynonyms
View thesaurus entry=
usual,
standard,
daily,
regular,
ordinary,
familiar,
plain,
conventional,
routine,
frequent,
everyday,
customary,
commonplace,
vanilla,
habitual,
run-of-the-mill,
humdrum,
stock,
workaday,
bog-standard,
a dime a dozen,
=
shared,
collective,
Translations
- British English:
common
If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.It's a common mistake.ˈkɒmən ADJECTIVE It's a common mistake.
- Spanish:
común
adj
- French:
commun
adj
- German:
weitverbreitet
adj
- Chinese: 常见的 adj
- Arabic: شَائِع adj
- Portuguese: comum adj
- Russian: общий adj общая
- Croatian: zajednički adj zajednička
- Czech: častý adj
- Danish: fælles adj
- Dutch: veelvoorkomend adj
- Finnish: yleinen adj
- Greek: συνήθης adj
- Italian: comune adj
- Japanese: 普通の no_posp
- Korean: 흔한 adj
- Norwegian: vanlig adj
- Polish: wspólny adj wspólna
- Brazilian Portuguese: comum adj
- European Spanish:
común
adj
- Swedish: vanlig adj vanligt
- Thai: ที่เกิดขึ้นทุกวัน adj
- Turkish: yaygın adj
- Vietnamese: thông thường adj
Usage examples
What you call court'esa in Medalon are merely common whores.
, TREASON KEEP (2001)Rather than every Government department having a different regional structure, these were all consolidated into a common system.
Country Life (2004)When a team clicks like this on a common vision and common goal they become stronger.
Irish Times (2002)The problem continues to plague us and it should not be confined to philosophers ' common rooms.
Glasgow Herald (2001)No unrecognised toxic substance in common use could be implicated, nor could a dietary deficiency.
, THE MEDICAL MYSTERIES E-OMNIBUS (2001)