common

Speech parts

1. common - Noun

2. common - Adjective

3. common - Verb

5. common - Adjective Satellite

6. Common - Proper noun

Meaning

Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

Profane; polluted.

Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

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.

To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

To participate.

To have a joint right with others in common ground.

To board together; to eat at a table in common.

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Examples

The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves. John Chrysostom

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Ambrose

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. Thales

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. Persian Proverb

Common fame seldom lies. Dutch Proverb

Common goods, no goods. Dutch Proverb

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