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/ˈkɒmən/
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/ˈkɔmən/
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/ˈkɒmən/
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[ˈkɔ̟mən]
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[ˈkɞ̠mən]
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/ˈkɑmən/
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/ˈkɑmɪn/
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/ˈkɒmʌn/
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ˈkɒmən
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ˈkɑmən
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ˈkɒmʌn
Adjective
Mutual; shared by more than one.
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The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.
Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.
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Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
And now a common enemy—pollution—promises to press the littoral nations of the Baltic into common cause.
Existing among virtually all people; universal.
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common knowledge, common decency, common sense
No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his character, could be capable of it.
Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
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It is common to find sharks off this coast.
Thus it is sayde in the cōmon vsage.
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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
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"Commoner" used to be commoner, but "more common" is now more common.
Sharks are common in these waters.
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It differs from the common blackbird in the size of its beak.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
Machine learning was the most common method of AI listed in patent requests.
In our daily-diary studies, one source of awe was by far the most common: other people. Regular acts of courage—bystanders defusing fights, subordinates standing up to abusive power holders—inspired awe.
Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
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the common folk
This fact was infamous / And ill beseeming any common man, / Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
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above the vulgar flight of common souls
Mr. Crackit (for he it was) had no very great quantity of hair, either upon his head or face, but what he had was of a reddish dye, and tortured into long corkscrew curls, through which he occasionally thrust some very dirty fingers ornamented with large common rings.
Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
If it be asked wherein the utility of some modern extensions of mathematics lies, it must be acknowledged that it is at present difficult to see how they are ever to become applicable to questions of common life or physical science.
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
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the common daisy (Bellis perennis)
Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
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common name vs. scientific name.
Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
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common law
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As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
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Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
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Profane; polluted.
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What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
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a Dame who her self was as Common as the King's High Way
Noun
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
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The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
Throughout the land there is a great variation in the shape and size of village greens, from the many of pocket-handkerchief size to a roadside common of 20 acres or more - as at Lindfield in West Sussex.
The people; the community.
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the weal o' the common
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.
Verb
To communicate (something).
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Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.
To converse, talk.
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So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]
1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle Capitaine generall of Flaunders, which amiably enterteyned the sayd Duke, and after they had secretly commoned of.
To have sex.
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To participate.
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To have a joint right with others in common ground.
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To board together; to eat at a table in common.
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Adjective
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
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for the common good
common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community
having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
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the common man
a common sailor
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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
common to or shared by two or more parties
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a common friend
the mutual interests of management and labor
commonly encountered
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a common (or familiar) complaint
the usual greeting
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
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common parlance
a vernacular term
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vernacular speakers
the vulgar tongue of the masses
the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
of or associated with the great masses of people
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the common people in those days suffered greatly
behavior that branded him as common
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his square plebeian nose
a vulgar and objectionable person
the unwashed masses
of low or inferior quality or value
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produced … the common cloths used by the poorer population
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
behavior that branded him as common
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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
to be expected; standard
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common decency
Noun
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
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they went for a walk in the park