adj.
(commoner, commonest)
- 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.
- 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.
- showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar.
- 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.
- Prosody (of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
- Law (of a crime) of lesser severity.
n.
- a piece of open land for public use.
- a form of Christian service used for each of a group of occasions.
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(also right of common)
English Law a person's right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage.
Phrase
- 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.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. comun, from L. communis.