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19 Definitions of: common
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- adjective, belonging to or shared by two or more people
- adjective, belonging to or shared by members of one or more nations or communities; public
- adjective, of ordinary standard; average
- adjective, prevailing; widespread
- adjective, widely known or frequently encountered; ordinary
- adjective, widely known and notorious
- adjective, derogatory considered by the speaker to be low-class, vulgar, or coarse
- adjective, having no special distinction, rank, or status
- adjective, maths a) having a specified relationship with a group of numbers or quantities b) (of a tangent) tangential to two or more circles
- adjective, prosody (of a syllable) able to be long or short, or (in nonquantitative verse) stressed or unstressed
- adjective, grammar (in certain languages) denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns, esp one that includes both masculine and feminine referents
- adjective, anatomy a) having branches b) serving more than one function
- adjective, Christianity of or relating to the common of the Mass or divine office
- adjective, common or garden ordinary; unexceptional
- noun, a tract of open public land, esp one now used as a recreation area
- noun, law the right to go onto someone else's property and remove natural products, as by pasturing cattle or fishing (esp in the phrase right of common)
- noun, Christianity a) a form of the proper of the Mass used on festivals that have no special proper of their own b) the ordinary of the Mass
- noun, the ordinary people; the public, esp those undistinguished by rank or title
- noun, in common mutually held or used with another or others ▷ See also commons
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of common