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单词 common
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common

/ˈkɒmən /
adjective (commoner, commonest)
1Occurring, found, or done often; prevalent: salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings common misspellings it’s common for a woman to be depressed after giving birth...
  • We have taken advice from the contractors who advise there is no need to put signs up and this is common practice for public places.
  • Wooden houses are common along the Caspian coast.
  • Recurrent symptoms were particularly common in younger patients.

Synonyms

usual, ordinary, customary, habitual, familiar, regular, frequent, repeated, recurrent, routine, everyday, daily, day-to-day, quotidian, standard, typical;
conventional, stock, stereotyped, predictable, commonplace, mundane, run-of-the-mill
literary wonted
widespread, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, well established, conventional, traditional, traditionalist, orthodox, accepted;
in circulation, in force, in vogue
1.1(Of an animal or plant) found or living in relatively large numbers; not rare: you might spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker the swordfish is not common in European waters...
  • The sighting of the black neck crane and several other rare and common birds in the area kept my spirit and interest buoyant.
  • Given that my horticultural expertise is limited to identifying about a dozen of the more common flowers, it's a curious choice.
  • Grouse, ravens and buzzards may be seen, and red deer are common.
1.2Denoting the most widespread or typical species of an animal or plant: the common gull...
  • We here in the East are limited to the common crow, blue jay and, in the western part of our state, to the raven.
  • On a warm summer day, a number of butterfly species can be seen on the reserve including common blue, green veined white and meadow brown.
  • The common wolf spider has no web, but the female is a gentle parent who encases her eggs in a silken bundle which she carries wherever she goes.
1.3Ordinary; of ordinary qualities; without special rank or position: the dwellings of common people a common soldier...
  • Their members came from the ranks of the common people, and their worship was personal and full of emotion.
  • He is Prime Minister, and therefore has a duty to rise above the ordinary concerns, fears and prejudices of the common man.
  • It is, in a way, the only menace with multiple potentials to perturb the normal life of the common man.

Synonyms

ordinary, normal, typical, average, unexceptional, run-of-the-mill, plain, simple
1.4(Of a quality) of a sort or level to be generally expected: common decency...
  • She replied bluntly, not bothering with the common courtesy Elizabeth expected.
  • They depend upon the social concern and common decency of ordinary people.
  • Colin suggested that Mr Kenny consider sending him on a ‘crash course for basic manners and common courtesy.’
1.5Of the most familiar type: the common or vernacular name...
  • In fats the alcohol is glycerol, more familiar under its common name of glycerine.
  • Chances are that you found the sentence confusing, even though all the words are common and familiar.
  • I am not for the word becoming part of the common, everyday vernacular, but it still is.
2Shared by, coming from, or done by two or more people, groups, or things: the two republics' common border problems common to both communities...
  • All three are human systems and all three share characteristics common to human systems.
  • This can only be possible if there are entry and exit points recognised by countries sharing common borders.
  • Brazil shares common borders with 10 other countries in South America.
2.1Belonging to or involving the whole of a community or the public at large: common land...
  • Residents who flocked to a public meeting on giving common status to land at Lowercroft dug deep into their pockets to swell a legal fighting fund.
  • The first measures to divide the common lands among local communities were taken in the late 1780s.
  • There would still be a public institutional complex ruling authoritatively on the common affairs of the community.

Synonyms

collective, communal, community, public, popular, general;
shared, joint, combined
2.2 Mathematics Belonging to two or more quantities.In fact, there will not be a Fibonacci number as a common factor between two neighbouring Fibonacci's for the same reason....
  • Two quantities are considered correlated when they are affected by a common quantity.
  • Two positive integers always have a greatest common divisor, even if they have only one common divisor, 1.
3British Showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar: she’s so common...
  • It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers.
  • Any more of those f-words and God forbid they might start thinking about letting rough common children into these private tennis clubs.
  • Oh, nothing would surprise them when it came to that common little harlot.

Synonyms

uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross;
lowly, low, low-born, low-ranking, low-class, inferior, humble, ignoble, proletarian, plebeian
informal plebby, slobbish, cloddish, clodhopping
British informal common as muck
archaic baseborn
4 Grammar (In Latin, Dutch, and certain other languages) of or denoting a gender of nouns that are conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine, contrasting with neuter.
4.1(In English) denoting a noun that refers to individuals of either sex (e.g. teacher).
5 Prosody (Of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
6 Law (Of a crime) of lesser severity: common assault...
  • A life is precious, and unlike a common theft, once taken, it can never be given back.
  • A GMP spokesman said the crime falls under the common assault category, a conviction for which could lead up to five years in jail.
  • The exceptional categories plainly apply to offences more serious than common assault, but no court has ever decided how far they go.
noun
1A piece of open land for public use: we spent the morning tramping over the common looking for flowers...
  • It will be designed to protect its amenities and preserve its open nature as a public common.
  • The council is responsible for maintaining more than 100 parks, open spaces, commons and woodlands which attract around five million visitors a year.
  • This statement of aims, if adopted, will greatly enhance the appeal of the commons for the public, while at the same time protecting and expanding the flora and fauna that inhabit these public open spaces.
2British informal Common sense.Have a bit of common....
  • It comes down to being sage, and using a bit of common, really.
3(In the Christian Church) a form of service used for each of a group of occasions.
4 (also right of common) English Law A person’s right over another’s land, e.g. for pasturage or mineral extraction.It should follow also that the beneficiaries of the 1877 trust were also those (both present and future) who would have been entitled to the rights of common....
  • Section 1 provides that, ‘There shall be registered… land… which is common land or a town or village green ’, and rights of common over such land.
  • We can assume that in Ireland and the Welsh Marches, the indigenous inhabitants found it exceptionally difficult to assert their customary rights of common in the waste in a conquest situation.

Phrases

common currency

common form

the common good

common ground

common knowledge

common or garden

common property

common thread

the common touch

have something in common

in common

in common with

out of the common

Derivatives

commonness

/ˈkɒmənnəs / noun ...
  • WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
  • Despite the apparent commonness of blonde hair, which accounts for a third of British women, Tobin said only about 3% were naturally blonde.
  • The very commonness of assumed aliases in the data suggests that taking on a new identity was not difficult in a nation of people increasingly ‘on the move.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French comun (adjective), from Latin communis.

Rhymes

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