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common - 11 definitions

- noun
1. park -- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
synonyms: park, commons, green
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
2. common, commons -- a tract of publicly used land
synonyms: commons, hackney, uncommon, commonest, commoned, commoning, unproper
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 
- adjective
3. common -- 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"
antonyms: individual -- being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
4. common -- having 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"
antonyms: uncommon -- not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
5. common -- common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
synonyms: mutual
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
6. common -- commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
synonyms: usual
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
7. common -- 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"
synonyms: vernacular, vulgar
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
8. common -- 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"
synonyms: plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
9. coarse -- of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
synonyms: coarse
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
10. coarse -- 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"
synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
11. common -- to be expected; standard; "common decency"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
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individual -- being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
uncommon -- not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"

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