common
IPA: kˈɑmʌn
noun
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
- A surname.
- (science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.
verb
- (obsolete) To communicate (something).
- (obsolete) To converse, talk.
- (obsolete) To have sex.
- (obsolete) To participate.
- (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
- (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
adjective
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
- (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
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Examples of "common" in Sentences
- It is the common prey of tigers.
- Avarice and wrath will be common.
- Jaywalking is common in this town.
- Bootlegging was common in the village.
- Other common names: _Yellow locust_; _common locust_; _locust_.
- But the commonality of this is a counterargument for notability.
- Current common English usage in this field is indubitably the ODB.
- The current combination of Avian flu is not the most common usage.
- At the time, poverty was normal in the rural areas, and serfdom was common.
- The Auditor General reports to the House of Commons, not to the government.
- The handle generally has a triune form asit is common to the pommel and blade.
- £¨mistakes / guilt£©, commitment, commodities / goods, common / average £¨ in common£©, communicate
- Moore was not a systematic philosopher: unlike Reid's philosophy of common sense, Moore's ˜common sense™ is not a system.
- In speaking of the incommensurability of values, Berlin seems to have meant that there is no common measure, no ˜common currency™ for comparison, in judging between any two values in the abstract.
- John, upon the common people, saved our Lord's life upon this and probably other occasions, for the scribes and chief priests sought opportunity to destroy him; but they feared the _common people_.
- Mrs. Purnell at that time brewed her own ale, which was very different from the nauseous and deleterious trash that is now supplied to such houses by those common pests of society, _common brewers_.
- These are, first, principles common to all sciences which are called _axioms_ or _common opinions_, as that 'of two contradictories one must be true', or 'if equals be subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal'; secondly, principles peculiar to the subject-matter of the particular science, say geometry.
- From common form seem to originate beauty and deformity; and, as they recede from each other in opposite directions, they become less and less like their parent, _common form_, but never totally unlike; for it is their likeness to that form that constitutes the one beauty, and the other deformity; for, were there no resemblance in deformity to the common form, it would be a different species, and no longer disgust; and none in beauty, it would no longer please.
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