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Common   /kˈɑmən/   Listen
Common

adjective
(compar. commoner; superl. commonest)
1.
Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public.  "Common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
2.
Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.  "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"
3.
Common to or shared by two or more parties.  Synonym: mutual.  "The mutual interests of management and labor"
4.
Commonly encountered.  Synonym: usual.  "The usual greeting"
5.
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.  Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar.  "A vernacular term" , "Vernacular speakers" , "The vulgar tongue of the masses" , "The technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
6.
Of or associated with the great masses of people.  Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar.  "Behavior that branded him as common" , "His square plebeian nose" , "A vulgar and objectionable person" , "The unwashed masses"
7.
Of low or inferior quality or value.  Synonym: coarse.  "Produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
8.
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.  Synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar.  "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"
9.
To be expected; standard.
noun
1.
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.  Synonyms: commons, green, park.



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... mobilization. There was no promise that Great Britain would help France, but the attitude of Germany had long been so threatening that the General Staffs of the two countries had taken counsel with each other concerning the best manner of employing the British forces in the event of common resistance to German aggression. It had been provisionally agreed that the British army should be concentrated on the left flank of the French army, in the area between Avesnes and Le Cateau, but this agreement was based on the assumption that the ...
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... life seemed not to be on a very high key. She had only a common-school education, and the leisure she had been able to command for general reading was not very great, nor had the library in the house of Plausaby been very extensive. She had read a good deal of Matthew Henry, the "Life and Labors of Mary Lyon" and the "Life of Isabella Graham," ...
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... quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of currants, three eggs, half a pint of milk, and a small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda or baking powder. The above is excellent. The cakes are always baked in a common earthen flower-pot saucer, which is a very ...
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... first English settlement at Jamestown and was first noticed because of its property of giving off light from itself. The name which was given it means light-bearer. It was at first thought to be the source of all power, to heal all diseases, and to turn the common minerals into gold. Although we have long ago learned that these ideas are absurd, yet we have also learned that its real value to man is far greater than was even dreamed ...
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