common

common
adjective (commoner, commonest)
1》 occurring, found, or done often; not rare.
    ↘without special rank or position; ordinary.
    ↘(of a quality) of a sort to be generally expected: common decency.
    ↘of the most familiar type.
2》 shared by two or more people or things.
    ↘belonging to or affecting the whole of a community: common land.
    ↘Mathematics belonging to two or more quantities.
3》 showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar.
4》 Grammar of or denoting a noun that refers to individuals of either sex (e.g. teacher) or belongs to a gender conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine.
5》 Prosody (of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
6》 Law (of a crime) of lesser severity.
noun
1》 a piece of open land for public use.
2》 a form of Christian service used for each of a group of occasions.
3》 (also right of common) English Law a person's right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage.
Phrases
common ground views shared by each of two or more parties.
common or garden Brit. informal of the usual or ordinary type.
the common touch the ability to get on with ordinary people.
in common in joint use or possession; shared.
in common with in the same way as.
Derivatives
commonness noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. comun, from L. communis.

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