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C0512900 (kŏm′ən)adj. com·mon·er, com·mon·est 1. a. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint: common interests.b. Of or relating to the community as a whole; public: for the common good.2. Widespread; prevalent: Gas stations became common as the use of cars grew.3. a. Occurring frequently or habitually; usual: It is common for movies to last 90 minutes or more.b. Most widely known; ordinary: the common housefly.4. Having no special designation, status, or rank: a common sailor.5. a. Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average: the common spectator.b. Of no special quality; standard: common procedure.c. Of mediocre or inferior quality; second-rate: common cloth.6. Unrefined or coarse in manner; vulgar: behavior that branded him as common.7. Grammar a. Either masculine or feminine in gender.b. Representing one or all of the members of a class; not designating a unique entity.n.1. commons The common people; commonalty.2. commons(used with a sing. or pl. verb)a. The social class composed of commoners.b. The parliamentary representatives of this class.3. Commons The House of Commons.4. A tract of land, usually in a centrally located spot, belonging to or used by a community as a whole: a band concert on the village common.5. The legal right of a person to use the lands or waters of another, as for fishing.6. commons(used with a sing. verb) A building or hall for dining, typically at a university or college.7. Common stock.8. Ecclesiastical A service used for a particular class of festivals.Idiom: in common Equally with or by all.

[Middle English commune, from Old French commun, from Latin commūnis; see mei- in Indo-European roots.]

com′mon·ly adv.com′mon·ness n.Synonyms: common, ordinary, familiar
These adjectives describe what is generally known or frequently encountered. Common applies to what takes place often, is widely used, or is well known: The botanist studied the common dandelion. The term also implies coarseness or a lack of distinction: My wallet was stolen by a common thief. Ordinary describes something usual that is indistinguishable from others, sometimes derogatorily: "His neighbors were all climbing into their cars and trucks and heading off to work as if nothing miraculous had happened and this were just another ordinary day" (Steve Yarbrough).
Familiar applies to what is well known or quickly recognized: Most children can recite familiar nursery rhymes. See Also Synonyms at general.

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(ˈkɒmən) adj1. belonging to or shared by two or more people: common property. 2. belonging to or shared by members of one or more nations or communities; public: a common culture. 3. of ordinary standard; average: common decency. 4. prevailing; widespread: common opinion. 5. widely known or frequently encountered; ordinary: a common brand of soap. 6. widely known and notorious: a common nuisance. 7. derogatory considered by the speaker to be low-class, vulgar, or coarse: a common accent. 8. (prenominal) having no special distinction, rank, or status: the common man. 9. (Mathematics) maths a. having a specified relationship with a group of numbers or quantities: common denominator. b. (of a tangent) tangential to two or more circles10. (Phonetics & Phonology) prosody (of a syllable) able to be long or short, or (in nonquantitative verse) stressed or unstressed11. (Grammar) 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. 12. (Anatomy) anatomy a. having branches: the common carotid artery. b. serving more than one function: the common bile duct. 13. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity of or relating to the common of the Mass or divine office14. common or garden informal ordinary; unexceptionaln15. (Physical Geography) (sometimes plural) a tract of open public land, esp one now used as a recreation area16. (Law) 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)17. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity a. a form of the proper of the Mass used on festivals that have no special proper of their ownb. the ordinary of the Mass18. archaic the ordinary people; the public, esp those undistinguished by rank or title19. in common mutually held or used with another or others[C13: from Old French commun, from Latin commūnis general, universal] ˈcommonness n

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n. adj. 1. belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common objectives. 2. pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture: a common language. 3. joint; united: a common defense. 4. widespread; general; universal: common knowledge. 5. of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common mistake. 6. of mediocre or inferior quality; mean: a rough, common fabric. 7. coarse; vulgar: common manners. 8. lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; ordinary: a common soldier. 9. in keeping with accepted standards; fundamental: common decency. 10. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short. 11. a. (of a grammatical case) fulfilling different functions that in some languages would require different inflected forms: English nouns used as subject or object are in the common case. b. of or pertaining to a word or gender that may refer to either a male or female: Frenchélève “pupil” has common gender. c. constituting a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Dutch nouns are either common or neuter in gender. 12. bearing a similar mathematical relation to two or more entities. 13. of or pertaining to common stock. n. 14. Often, commons. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, as a central square or park in a city or town. 15. the right, in common with other persons, to pasture animals on another's land or to fish in another's waters. 16. commons, a. the common people; commonalty. b. the body of people not of noble birth, as represented by the House of Commons. c. (cap.) (used with a sing. v.) the House of Commons. 17. commons, a. (used with a sing. v.) a large dining room, esp. at a university or college. b. (usu. with a pl. v.) food or provisions for any group. 18. (sometimes cap.) a. an ecclesiastical office or form of service used on a festival of a particular kind. b. the ordinary of the Mass, esp. those parts sung by the choir. Idioms: in common, in joint possession or use; shared equally. [1250–1300; Middle English comun < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin commūnis common <com- + mūnus task, duty, gift, c. mean²] com′mon•ly, adv. com′mon•ness, n. syn: common, ordinary, vulgar refer, often with derogatory connotations, to what is usual or most often experienced. common applies to what is widespread or unexceptional; it often suggests inferiority or coarseness: common servants; common cloth. ordinary refers to what is to be expected in the usual order of things; it suggests being average or below average: a high price for something of such ordinary quality. vulgar means belonging to the people or characteristic of common people; it suggests low taste, coarseness, or ill breeding: vulgar manners; vulgar speech. See also general.

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If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.

His name was Hansen, a common name in Norway.These days, it is common to see adults returning to study.

The comparative and superlative forms of common are usually more common and most common. Commonest is sometimes used instead of more common in front of a noun.

Job sharing has become more common.The disease is most common in adults over 40.Stress is one of the commonest causes of insomnia.

Be Careful!
Don't use a that-clause after common. Don't say, for example, 'It is quite common that motorists fall asleep while driving'. You say 'It is quite common for motorists to fall asleep while driving'.

It is common for a child to become deaf after even a moderate ear infection.

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Noun	1.	common - a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"commons, green, parkamusement park, funfair, pleasure ground - a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusementparcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel - an extended area of landpopulated area, urban area - a geographical area constituting a city or townvillage green - a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land
Adj.	1.	common - belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"individual, single - being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
	2.	common - having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"usual - occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"uncommon - not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"
	3.	common - common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"mutualshared - have in common; held or experienced in common; "two shared valence electrons forming a bond between adjacent nuclei"; "a shared interest in philately"
	4.	common - commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"usualfamiliar - within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"
	5.	common - being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"vernacular, vulgarinformal - used of spoken and written language
	6.	common - of or associated with the great masses of people; "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"plebeian, unwashed, vulgarlowborn - of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor"
	7.	common - of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"coarseinferior - of low or inferior quality
	8.	common - lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "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"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar, coarseunrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
	9.	common - to be expected; standard; "common decency"ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

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adjective1. usual, standard, daily, regular, ordinary, familiar, plain, conventional, routine, frequent, everyday, customary, commonplace, vanilla (slang), habitual, run-of-the-mill, humdrum, stock, workaday, bog-standard (Brit. & Irish slang), a dime a dozen Earthquakes are fairly common in this part of the world.
usual strange, rare, unusual, outstanding, unknown, abnormal, scarce, uncommon, infrequent2. popular, general, accepted, standard, routine, widespread, universal, prevailing, prevalent It is common practice these days to administer vitamin K during childbirth.3. shared, collective They share a common language.4. ordinary, average, simple, typical, undistinguished, dinki-di (Austral. informal) He proclaims himself to be the voice of the common man.
ordinary important, famous, superior5. vulgar, low, inferior, coarse, plebeian She might be a little common at times, but she was certainly not boring.
vulgar cultured, sensitive, distinguished, gentle, sophisticated, noble, refined6. collective, public, community, social, communal social policies which promote the common good
collective private, personal

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adjective1. Belonging to, shared by, or applicable to all alike:communal, conjoint, general, joint, mutual, public.2. Belonging or relating to the whole:general, generic, universal.3. Occurring quite often:everyday, familiar, frequent, regular, routine, widespread.4. Commonly encountered:average, commonplace, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual.5. Lacking high station or birth:baseborn, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar.Archaic: base.6. Being of no special quality or type:average, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable.7. Of moderately good quality but less than excellent:acceptable, adequate, all right, average, decent, fair, fairish, goodish, moderate, passable, respectable, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerable.Informal: OK, tidy.8. Of low or lower quality:inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mean, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard.9. Known widely and unfavorably:infamous, notorious.noun1. The common people.Used in plural:commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck, third estate.2. A tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community:green.

Translations

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(ˈkomən) adjective1. seen or happening often; quite normal or usual. a common occurrence; These birds are not so common nowadays.通常的2. belonging equally to, or shared by, more than one. This knowledge is common to all of us; We share a common language.多人平等共有的3. publicly owned. common property.共有的4. coarse or impolite. She uses some very common expressions.粗俗的5. of ordinary, not high, social rank. the common people.普通的6. of a noun, not beginning with a capital letter (except at the beginning of a sentence). The house is empty.通格的 noun (a piece of) public land for everyone to use, with few or no buildings. the village common.公地ˈcommoner noun a person who is not of high rank. The royal princess married a commoner.平民common knowledge something known to everyone or to most people. Surely you know that already – it's common knowledge.常识common ˈlaw noun a system of unwritten laws based on old customs and on judges' earlier decisions. 习惯法ˈcommon-law adjective referring to a relationship between two people who are not officially married, but have the same rights as husband and wife. a common-law marriage; a common-law wife/husband. 习惯法的，有关习惯法的 ˈcommonplace adjective very ordinary and uninteresting. commonplace remarks.平凡的ˈcommon-room noun in a college, school etc a sitting-room for the use of a group. 公共休息室common sense practical good sense. If he has any common sense he'll change jobs.常识the Common Market (formerly) an association of certain European countries to establish free trade (without duty, tariffs etc) among them, now replaced by the European Union. （欧洲）共同市场 the (House of) Commons the lower house of the British parliament. （英国）下议院 in common (of interests, attitudes, characteristics etc) shared or alike. They have nothing in common – I don't know why they're getting married.共同

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Belonging to or pertaining to the general public. Common lands, also known as public lands, are those that are set aside for use by the community at large, such as parks and public recreation areas. Common also means habitual or recurring, such as offenses that are committed frequently or repeatedly. A common thief is one who has been repeatedly convicted of Larceny. Something that is common is owned equally by two or more people, such as a piece of land. A Tenancy in Common is an interest in land wherein at least two people share ownership.

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the right to go on to someone else's property and remove natural products, as by pasturing cattle or fishing.

COMMON. or right of common, English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of another. 12 S. & R. 32; 10 Wend. R. 647; 11 John. R. 498; 2 Bouv. Inst. 1640, et seq.
2. Common is of four sorts; of pasture, piscary, turbary and estovers. Finch's Law, 157; Co. Litt. 122; 2 Inst. 86; 2 Bl. Com. 32.
3. - 1. Common of pasture is a right of feeding one's beasts on another's land, and is either appendant, appurtenant, or in gross.
4. Common appendant is of common right, and it may be claimed in pleading as appendant, without laying a prescription. Hargr. note to 2 Inst. 122, a note.
5. Rights of common appurtenant to the claimant's land are altogether independent of the tenure, and do not arise from any absolute necessity; but may be annexed to lands in other lordships, or extended to other beasts besides. such as are generally commonable.
6. Common in gross, or at large, is such as is neither appendant nor appurtenant to land, but is annexed to a man's person. All these species of pasturable common, may be and usually are limited to number and time; but there are also commons without stint, which last all the year. 2 Bl. Com. 34.
7. - 2. Common of piscary is the liberty of fishing in another man's water. lb. See Fishery.
8. - 3. Common of turbary is the liberty of digging turf in another man's ground. Ib.
9.-4. Common of estovers is the liberty of taking necessary wood-for the use or furniture of a house or farm from another man's estate. Ib.; 10 Wend. R. 639. See Estovers.
10. The right of common is little known in the United States, yet there are some regulations to be found in relation to this subject. The constitution of Illinois provides for the continuance of certain commons in that state. Const. art. 8, s. 8.
11. All unappropriated lands on the Chesapeake Bay, on the Shore of the sea, or of any river or creek, and the bed of any river or creek, in the eastern parts of the commonwealth, ungranted and used as common, it is declared by statute in Virginia, shall remain so, and not be subject to grant. 1 Virg. Rev. C. 142.
12. In most of the cities and towns in the United States, there are considerable tracts of land appropriated to public use. These commons were generally laid out with the cities or towns where they are found, either by the original proprietors or by the early inhabitants. Vide 2 Pick. Rep. 475; 12 S. & R. 32; 2 Dane's. Ab. 610; 14 Mass. R. 440; 6 Verm. 355. See, in general, Vin. Abr. Common; Bac. Abr. Common; Com. Dig. Common; Stark. Ev. part 4, p. 383; Cruise on Real Property, h.t.; Metc. & Perk. Dig. Common, and Common lands and General fields.

COMMON, TENANTS IN. Tenants in common are such as hold an estate, real or personal, by several distinct titles, but by a unity of possession. Vide Tenant in common; Estate in common.

LAW, COMMON. The common law is that which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practice of the people. It has never received the sanction of the legislature, by an express act, which is the criterion by which it is distinguished from the statute law. It has never been reduced to writing; by this expression, however, it is not meant that all those laws are at present merely oral, or communicated from former ages to the present solely by word of mouth, but that the evidence of our common law is contained in our books of Reports, and depends on the general practice and judicial adjudications of our courts.
2. The common law is derived from two sources, the common law of England, and the practice and decision of our own courts. In some states the English common law has been adopted by statute. There is no general rule to ascertain what part of the English common law is valid and binding. To run the line of distinction, is a subject of embarrassment to courts, and the want of it a great perplexity to the student. Kirb. Rep. Pref. It may, however, be observed generally, that it is binding where it has not been superseded by the constitution of the United States, or of the several states, or by their legislative enactments, or varied by custom, and where it is founded in reason and consonant to the genius and manners of the people.
3. The phrase "common law" occurs in the seventh article of the amendments of the constitution of the United States. "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall not exceed twenty dollar says that article, "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. The "common law" here mentioned is the common law of England, and not of any particular state. 1 Gall. 20; 1 Bald. 558; 3 Wheat. 223; 3 Pet. R. 446; 1 Bald. R. 554. The term is used in contradistinction to equity, admiralty, and maritime law. 3 Pet. 446; 1 Bald. 554.
4. The common law of England is not in all respects to be taken as that of the United States, or of the several states; its general principles are adopted only so far as they are applicable to our situation. 2 Pet, 144; 8 Pet. 659; 9 Cranch, 333; 9 S. & R. 330; 1 Blackf 66, 82, 206; Kirby, 117; 5 Har. & John. 356; 2 Aik. 187; Charlt. 172; 1 Ham. 243. See 5 Cow. 628; 5 Pet. 241; 1 Dall. 67; 1 Mass. 61; 9 Pick. 532; 3 Greenl. 162; 6 Greenl. 55; 3 Gill & John. 62; Sampson's Discourse before the Historical Society of New York; 1 Gallis. R. 489; 3 Conn. R. 114; 2 Dall. 2, 297, 384; 7 Cranch, R. 32; 1 Wheat. R. 415; 3 Wheat. 223; 1 Blackf. R. 205; 8 Pet. R. 658; 5 Cowen, R. 628; 2 Stew. R. 362.

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adj popular

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adj belonging to, shared by, or applicable to all alike

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adj lacking high station or birth

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adj being of no special quality or type

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adj of moderately good quality but less than excellent

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adj known widely and unfavorably

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noun the common people

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noun a tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community

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noun a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

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adj belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole

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adj having no special distinction or quality

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