common

Meaning

1. Mutual; shared by more than one.
2. Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
3. Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
4. Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
5. Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
6. As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
7. Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
8. Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
9. Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
10. Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
11. (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
12. (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.

ordinary

usual

even mode

generally accepted

united

epidemic

voltage to ground mode

rough-cut

grass land

sheep run

rabbit-eared bandicoot

well known

public land

natural thing

doing together

in the usual course

day-by-day

run-of-the-mine

vulgaris

common cold

community

merely formal

over all

generally accepted/used/adopted

universally received

European elder

bilby

consuetudinal

day-after-day

recreation facility

universally adopted

generally adopted

generally used

belonging to everybody

common property

grazing land

general universal

Frequency

Hyphenated as

com‧mon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒm.ən/

From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gamainī (“common”) in Old French), from Latin commūnis (“common, public, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s (“held in common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange, change”). Displaced native Middle English imene, ȝemǣne (“common, general, universal”) (from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English mene, mǣne (“mean, common”) (also from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English samen, somen (“in common, together”) (from Old English samen (“together”)). Doublet of gmina.

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