Dictionary Definition
common adj
1 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" [ant: individual]
2 of 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" [ant: uncommon]
3 common to or shared by two or more parties; "a
common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
[syn: mutual]
4 commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar)
complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: usual]
5 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" [syn: vernacular, vulgar]
6 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" [syn:
plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
7 of low or inferior quality or value; "of what
coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common
cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse]
8 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" [syn: coarse, rough-cut,
uncouth, vulgar]
9 to be expected; standard; "common decency" n :
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they
went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, green]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- The two competitors have the common aim of winning the
championship.
- Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.
- The two competitors have the common aim of winning the
championship.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- It is common to find sharks off this coast.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.
- Sharks are common in these waters.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.
- Of or pertaining to uncapitalized nouns in English, i.e., common nouns vs. proper nouns
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (mutual): personal, individual
- (usual): rare, unusual, uncommon
- (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity): few and far between, rare, uncommon
Translations
mutual
- Bulgarian: общ (obšt)
- Catalan: comú , comuna
- Czech: společný
- Dutch: gemeen, gemene, gewoon, gewone
- Danish: fælles
- Finnish: yhteinen
- French: commun , commune
- German: gemeinsam, Gemein-, gemeinschaftlich (property)
- Hebrew: משותף (meshutaf) , משותפת (meshutefet)
- Ido: komuna
- Interlingua: commun
- Italian: comune and
- Japanese: 共通 (きょうつう, kyōtsū)
- Malay: sama
- Polish: wspólny, ogólny
- Portuguese: comum and
- Russian: общий (óbščij), взаимный (vzaímnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cumanta, coitcheann
- Swedish: gemensam, allmän
usual
- Bulgarian: обикновен (obiknoven)
- Catalan: comú
- Czech: běžný , obvyklý
- Danish: almindelig, vanlig, sædvanlig
- Dutch: gemeen, gemene, gewoon, gewone
- Finnish: yleinen, tavallinen
- French: commun , commune
- German: nicht ungewöhnlich, gewöhnlich, häufig
- Hebrew: שכיח (shakhíakh) , שכיחה (shkhikha)
- Ido: ordinara
- Interlingua: commun
- Italian: comune and
- Malay: biasa
- Persian: (raij), (šâyee)
- Polish: zwykły
- Portuguese: comum and
- Russian: обычный (obýčnyj), обыденный (obýdennyj), повседневный (povsednévnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cumanta, àbhaisteach, coitcheann
- Spanish: común
- Swedish: vanlig
found in large numbers or in a large quantity
- Czech: běžný
- Dutch: veelvoorkomend
- French: commun , commune
- German: häufig, nicht ungewöhnlich, gewöhnlich
- Hebrew: נפוץ (nafótz) , נפוצה (nefotza) ; שכיח (shakhíakh) , שכיחה (shkhikha)
- Italian: comune and
- Polish: pospolity, powszechny
- Russian: обычный (obýčnyj), повсеместный (povseméstnyj), распространённый (rasprostranjónnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cumanta, coitcheann
- Swedish: vanlig
ordinary
grammar: of the gender resulting from the
coalescence of the masculine and feminine genders
- Danish: fælleskøn
- French: genre commun
- Russian: общий род (óbščij rod)
- Swedish: utrum (noun; the Swedish common gender)
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Indonesian: umum, bersama
Translations
mutual good
- Dutch: gemeengoed
- Finnish: yhteismaa
tract of land
- Dutch: meent (archaic)
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Common or commons may refer to:
- "Commons" an abbreviation for the House of Commons
- COMMON, a users group
- Common land
- Common (language), fictional language used in sci-fi and fantasy literature
- Common noun
- Common species
- Common (rapper), Chicago based hip-hop artist formerly known as Common Sense
- Common stock, most usual form of stock in a corporation
- Creative Commons, non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share
- Wikimedia Commons, repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files
See also
common in Portuguese: Common
(desambiguação)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Astroturf, Attic, Babbittish, Mickey Mouse,
Philistine, Spartan, absolute interest,
accustomed, adequate, all right, artificial
turf, ascetic, associated, austere, average, back-number, bald, banal, bare, base, baseborn, beggarly, below the salt,
beneath contempt, benefit, besetting, bewhiskered, bourgeois, bowling green,
breezy, bromidic, campy, candid, casual, central, chaste, cheap, cheesy, civic, civil, claim, classic, classical, cliched, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coarse, cockney, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, colloquial, collusive, combined, commensal, commonage, commoners, commonly known,
commonplace,
commons, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, community, commutual, concerted, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, conjunct, conniving, contemptible, contingent
interest, conventional, conversational, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, corny, corporate, cosmopolitan, crummy, current, customary, cut-and-dried,
declasse, defiled, demeaning, despicable, direct, disadvantaged, dominant, down-to-earth,
dry, dull, easement, ecumenic, epidemic, equitable interest,
equity, estate, everyday, fade, fairway, familiar, fellow, flat, fourth-class, frank, frequent, frequentative, fusty, garden, garden-variety, gaudy, general, generic, gimcracky, golf course, golf
links, good, grassplot, green, greenyard, grounds, habitual, hack, hackney, hackneyed, harmonious, harmonized, high-camp,
holding, homely, homespun, household, humble, humdrum, in common, in the
shade, inferior,
informal, infra dig,
insipid, interest, intermediary, intermediate, international, irregular, joint, junior, kitschy, lawn, lean, less, lesser, like, limitation, low, low-camp, low-class, low-grade,
low-pressure, low-quality, low-test, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowly, many, many times, matter-of-fact,
mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, meretricious, middle-class,
middle-of-the-road, middling, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, moth-eaten, mundane, musty, mutual, national, natural, neat, no great shakes, nonclerical, noncompetitive, nondescript, nonstandard, normal, normative, not rare, notorious, of common
occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, old hat, open, ordinary, ornery, overused, paltry, pandemic, paradise, park, part, pathetic, pedestrian, people, percentage, pitiable, pitiful, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, plastic,
platitudinous,
plaza, pleasance, pleasure garden,
pleasure ground, plebeian, plebeians, poetryless, polluted, poor, pop, populace, popular, predominant, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proletarian, prosaic, prosing, prosy, proverbial, public, public park, punk, pure, pure and simple, putting
green, rampant, rank and
file, reciprocal,
recurrent, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, relaxed, repetitious, respective, rife, right, right of entry, routine, rubbishy, rude, ruling, run-of-mine,
run-of-the-mill, running, rustic, sad, satisfactory, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second rank, second
string, second-best, second-class, second-rate, secondary, seedy, servile, set, settlement, severe, shabby, shabby-genteel, shared, shoddy, similar, simple, simple-speaking, sleazy, sober, social, socialistic, societal, sorry, spare, spoken, square, stake, stale, standard, stark, state, stereotyped, stock, straightforward, strict
settlement, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, substandard, suburban, sufficient, supranational, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tacky, talked-about, talked-of,
tatty, thick-coming, third
estate, third rank, third string, third-class, third-estate,
third-rate, threadbare, timeworn, tinny, tired, tiresome, title, tolerable, trashy, trite, truistic, trumpery, trust, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, two-way, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
typical, unadorned, unaffected, unclean, uncompetitive, unconstrained, underprivileged,
undistinguished,
uneducated, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptionable,
unexceptional,
unexciting, unfussy, ungenteel, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpeachable, uninteresting, universal, universally
admitted, universally recognized, unliterary, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unrefined, unremarkable, unreserved, unromantic, unspectacular, unstudied, unvarnished, use, usual, valueless, vapid, vernacular, vested interest,
vile, village green,
vulgar, warmed-over,
well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood,
well-worn, widely known, wonted, workaday, workday, worn, worn out, worn thin, worthless, wretched