English-Thai Dictionary

common

ADJ ที่ ร่วมกัน  shared joint mutual ti-ruam-kan

 

common

ADJ ที่ เกิดขึ้น ทุกวัน  everyday usual commonplace unusual unique ti-koed-kuen-tuk-wan

 

common

ADJ ที่ เป็น ของ ส่วนรวม  public community ti-pen-kong-suan-ruam

 

common as muck

SL ธรรมดา มาก  tam-ma-da-mak

 

common cold

N ไข้หวัด  cold kai-wad

 

common or garden

SL ไม่ โดดเด่น  mai-dod-den

 

common room

N ห้องโถง พักผ่อน ของ นักศึกษา  hong-tong-pak-pon-kong-nak-suek-sa

 

common sense

N การ ตัดสิน แบบ พื้นๆ  การ ใช้ ความคิด ตัดสิน เบื้องต้น  kan-tad-sin-baeb-puen-puen

 

commonable

A เกี่ยวกับ กรรมสิทธิ์ ร่วม 

 

commonage

N กรรมสิทธิ์ ร่วม  สามัญชน  ที่ ส่วนรวม 

 

commonality

N คนธรรมดา สามัญ  commonality common people commoner kon-tam-ma-da-sa-man

 

commonalty

N คนธรรมดา สามัญ  commonalty common people commoner kon-tam-ma-da-sa-man

 

commoner

N คนธรรมดา สามัญ  commonality common people commonalty kon-tam-ma-da-sa-man

 

commoner

N นักศึกษา ที่ ต้อง เสียค่าใช้จ่าย เอง (เนื่องจาก ไม่ได้ รับ ทุน  nak-suek-sa-ti-tong-sia-ka-chai-jai-ang

 

commonly

N อย่าง ธรรมดา  ordinarily generally yang-tam-ma-da

 

commonplace

ADJ ที่ เกิดขึ้น ทุกวัน  usual common ti-koed-kuen-tuk-wan

 

commonplace

ADJ น่าเบื่อ  dull na-buea

 

commonplace

N สิ่ง ที่ เห็น ได้ บ่อยๆ  สิ่ง ที่ เห็น ได้ ทั่วไป  sing-ti-hen-dai-boi-boi

 

commonweal

N ความสงบ สุข  kwam-sa-ngob-suk

 

commonwealth

N ประชาชน ของ ชาติ  the people pra-cha-chon-kong-chad

 

commonwealth

N ประเทศ หรือ รัฐ ที่ ปกครอง ตนเอง  republic federation pra-thed-rue-rad-ti-pok-krong-ton-ang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMMON

a. 1. Belonging equally to more than one, or to many indefinitely; as, life and sense are common to man and beast; the common privileges of citizens; the common wants of men.
2. Belonging to the public; having no separate owner. The right to a highway is common.
3. General; serving for the use of all; as the common prayer.
4. Universal; belonging to all; as, the earth is said to be the common mother of mankind.
5. Public; general; frequent; as common report.
6. Usual; ordinary; as the common operations of nature; the common forms of conveyance; the common rules of civility.
7. Of no rank or superior excellence; ordinary. Applied to men, it signifies, not noble, not distinguished by noble descent, or not distinguished by office, character or talents; as a common man; a common soldier. Applied to things, it signifies, not distinguished by excellence or superiority; as a common essay; a common exertion. It however is not generally equivalent to mean, which expresses something lower in rank or estimation.
8. Prostitute; lewd; as a common woman.
9. In grammar, such verbs as signify both action and passion, are called common; as aspernor, I despise or am despised; also, such nouns as are both masculine and feminine, as parens.
1 . A common bud, in botany, is one that contains both leaves and flowers; a common peduncle, one that bears several flowers; a common perianth, one that incloses several distinct fructification; a common receptacle, one that connects several distinct fructification.
Common divisor, in mathematics, is a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder.
Common Law, in Great Britain and the United States, the unwritten law, the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, in distinction from the written or statute law. That body of rules, principles and customs which have been received from our ancestors, and by which courts have been governed in their judicial decisions. The evidence of this law is to be found in the reports of those decisions, and the records of the courts. Some of these rules may have originated in edicts or statutes which are now lost, or in the terms and conditions of particular grants or charters; but it is most probable that many of them originated in judicial decisions founded on natural justice and equity, or on local customs.
Common pleas, in Great Britain, one of the kings courts, now held in Westminster-Hall. It consists of a chief justice and three other justices, and has cognizance of all civil causes, real, personal or mixed, as well by original writ, as by removal from the inferior courts. A writ of error, in the nature of an appeal, lies from this court to the court of kings bench.
In some of the American states, a court of common pleas is an inferior court, whose jurisdiction is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court. This court is variously constituted in different states, and its powers are defined by statutes. It has jurisdiction of civil causes, and of minor offenses; but its final jurisdiction is very limited; all causes of magnitude being removable to a higher Court by appeal or by writ of error.
Common book of prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, which all the clergy of the Church are enjoined to use, under a penalty.
Common recovery, a legal process for recovering an estate or barring entails.
Common time, in music, duple or double time, when the semibreve is equal to two minims.
In common, equally with another, or with others; to be equally used or participated by two or more; as tenants in common; to provide for children in common; to assign lands to two persons in common, or to twenty in common; we enjoy the bounties of providence in common.

 

COMMON

n. 1. A tract of ground, the use of which is not appropriated to an individual, but belongs to the public or to a number. Thus we apply the word to an open ground or space in a highway, reserved for public use.
2. In law, an open ground, or that soil the use of which belongs equally to the inhabitants of a town or of a lordship, or to a certain number of proprietors; or the profit which a man has in the land of another; or a right which a person has to pasture has cattle on land of another, or to dig turf, or catch fish, or cut wood, or the like; called common of pasture, of turbary, of piscary, and of estovers.
Common, or right of common, is appendant, appurtenant, because of vicinage, or in gross.
Common appendant is a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the lords waste, and upon the lands of other persons within the same manor. This is a matter of most universal right.
Common appurtenant may be annexed to lands in other lordships, or extend to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable; this is not of common right, but can be claimed only b immemorial usage and prescription.
Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, is where the inhabitants of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another, the beasts of the one straying into the others fields; this is a permissive right.
Common in gross or at large, is annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole.

 

COMMON

v.i. 1. To have a joint right with others in common ground.
2. To board together; to eat at a table in common.

 

COMMON

adv. Commonly.

 

COMMON-COUNCIL

n.The council of a city or corporate town, empowered to make by-laws for the government of the citizens. The common council of London consists of two houses; the upper house, composed of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen; and the lower house, of the common-council-men, elected by the several wards. In most of the American cities, the Mayor, Aldermen and common-council-men constituted one body, called a Court of Common-Council

 

COMMON-CRIER

n.A crier whose occupation is to give notice of lost things.

 

COMMON-HALL

n.A hall or house in which citizens meet for business.

 

COMMON-LAWYER

n.One versed in Common Law.

 

COMMONPLACE

n.A memorandum; a common topic.

 

COMMONPLACE

v.t.To enter in a commonplace-book, or to reduce to general heads. Commonplace-book, a book in which are registered such facts, opinions or observations as are deemed worthy of notice or remembrance, so disposed that any one may be easily found. Hence common-place as used as an epithet to denote what is common or often repeated, or trite; as a commonplace observation.

 

COMMONABLE

a. 1. Held in common.
2. That may be pastured on common land.
Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground.

 

COMMONAGE

n.The right of pasturing on a common; the joint right of using any thing in common with others.

 

COMMONALTY

n. 1. The common people. In Great Britain, all classes and conditions of people, who are below the rank of nobility.
The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees.
In the United States, commonalty has no very definite signification. It is however used to denote that part of the people who live by labor, and are not liberally educated, nor elevated by office or professional pursuits.
2. The bulk of mankind.

 

COMMONER

n. 1. One of the lower rank, or common people; one under the degree of nobility.
2. A member of the house of commons.
3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
4. A student of the second rank in the universities in England; one who eats at a common table.
5. A prostitute.
6. A partaker.

 

COMMONITION

n.Advice; warning; instruction.

 

COMMONITIVE

a.Warning; monitory.

 

COMMONLY

adv. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.

 

COMMONNESS

n. 1. Frequent occurrence; a state of being common or usual.
2. Equal participation by two or more.

 

COMMONS

n.plu. 1. The common people, who inherit or possess no honors or titles; the vulgar.
2. In England, the lower house of Parliament, consisting of the representatives of cities, boroughs and counties, chosen by men possessed of the property or qualifications required by law. This body is called the House of Commons. The House of Representatives in North Carolina bears the same name.
3. Common grounds; land possessed or used by two or more persons in common.
4. Food provided at a common table, as in colleges, where many persons eat at the same table or in the same hall.
Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant.
Doctors Commons, in London, a college founded by Dr. Harvey, for the professors of the civil law, where the civilians common together. The house was consumed in the great fire in 1666, but rebuilt in 1672. To this college belong thirty four proctors.

 

COMMONTY

n.In Scots law, land belonging to two or more common proprietors; or a heath or muir, of which there has been a promiscuous possession by pasturage.

 

COMMONWEAL, COMMONWEALTH

n. 1. An established form of government, or civil polity; or more generally, a state; a body politic, consisting of a certain portion of men united by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. This term is applied to the government of Great Britain, which is of a mixed character, and to other governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely or improperly, to an absolute government. A commonwealth is properly a free state; a popular or representative government; a republic; as the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The word signifies strictly, the common good or happiness; and hence, the form of government supposed best to secure the public good.
2. The whole body of people in a state the public.
3. The territory of a state; as, all the land within the limits of the commonwealth.

 

COMMONWEALTHSMAN

n.One who favors the commonwealth, or a republican government.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMMON

Com "mon, a. [Compar. Commoner; superl. Commonest.] Etym: [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. & v.]

 

1. Belonging or relating equally, or similary, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. Sir M. Hale.

 

2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, consired together; general; public; as, propertis common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requereth. Hocker. The common enemy of man. Shak.

 

3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. Shak.

 

4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.

 

5. Profane; polluted. [Obs. ] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

 

6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. L'Estrange. Common bar (Law ) Same as Blank bar, under Blank. -- Common barrator (Law ), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law ), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law ), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons ) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. -- Common chord (Mus. ), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. -- Common council, the representative (legislative ) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the crier of a town or city. -- Common divisor (Math. ), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. -- Common gender (Gram. ), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. -- Common law, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. Wharton.

 

Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England ), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from statute law. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other ) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See Law. -- Common lawyer, one versed in common law. -- Common lewdness (Law ), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. -- Common multiple (Arith.) See under Multiple. -- Common noun (Gram. ), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing ). -- Common nuisance (Law ), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. -- Common pleas, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, botth civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court. Its powers are generally defined by statute. -- Common prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. -- Common school, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. -- Common scold (Law ), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. -- Common seal, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. -- Common sense. (a ) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs. ] Trench. (b ) Sound judgment. See under Sense. -- Common time (Mus. ), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. -- In common, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. -- Out of the common, uncommon; extraordinary. -- Tenant in common, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See Joint tenant, under Joint. -- To make common cause with, to join or ally one's self with.

 

Syn. -- General; public; popular; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See Mutual, Ordinary, General.

 

COMMON

COMMON Com "mon, n.

 

1. The people; the community. [Obs. ] "The weal o' the common. " Shak.

 

2. 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.

 

3. (Law )

 

Defn: 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. Common appendant, a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell. -- Common appurtenant, a similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs. -- Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields. -- Common in gross or at large, a common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging to another. -- Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

 

COMMON

COMMON Com "mon, v. i.

 

1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs. ] Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton.

 

2. To participate. [Obs. ] Sir T. More.

 

3. To have a joint right with others in common ground. Johnson.

 

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

 

COMMONABLE

COMMONABLE Com "mon *a *ble, a.

 

1. Held in common. "Forests... and other commonable places." Bacon.

 

2. Allowed to pasture on public commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.

 

COMMONAGE

Com "mon *age, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. communage.]

 

Defn: The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage... in most of the forests. Burke.

 

COMMONALTY

Com "mon *al *ty, n.; pl. Commonalties. Etym: [Of. communalté; F.communauté, fr. communal. See Communal. ]

 

1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone.The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landon.

 

2. The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs. ] Hooker.

 

COMMONER

COMMONER Com "mon *er, n.

 

1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers ] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

 

2. A member of the House of Commons.

 

3. One who has a joint right in common ground. Much good land might be gained from forests... and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. Bacon.

 

4. One sharing with another in anything. [Obs. ] Fuller.

 

5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng. , who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; -- at Cambrige called a pensioner.

 

6. A prostitute. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

COMMONISH

COMMONISH Com "mon *ish, a.

 

Defn: Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

 

COMMONITION

Com `mo *ni "tion, n. Etym: [L. commonitio. See Monition. ]

 

Defn: Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs. ] Bailey.

 

COMMONITIVE

COMMONITIVE Com *mon "i *tive, a.

 

Defn: Monitory. [Obs. ] Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.

 

COMMONITORY

Com *mon "i *to *ry, a. Etym: [L. commonitorius.]

 

Defn: Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs. ] Foxe.

 

COMMONLY

COMMONLY Com "mon *ly, adv.

 

1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

 

2. In common; familiary. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

COMMONNESS

COMMONNESS Com "mon *ness, n.

 

1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

 

2. Triteness; meanness.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, a.

 

Defn: Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, n.

 

1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

 

2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, v. t.

 

Defn: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, v. i.

 

Defn: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs. ] Bacon.

 

COMMONPLACENESS

COMMONPLACENESS Com "mon *place `ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

 

COMMONS

COMMONS Com "mons, n. pl. ,

 

1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng. ] 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. Blackstone.

 

2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. Hume.

 

3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.

 

4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

 

5. A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. Shak. Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Chuchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq. ]

 

COMMON SENSE

COMMON SENSE Com "mon sense ".

 

Defn: See Common sense, under Sense.

 

COMMONTY

COMMONTY Com "mon *ty, n. (Scots Law )

 

Defn: A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.

 

COMMONWEAL

COMMONWEAL Com "mon *weal ", n. [Common + weal. ]

 

Defn: Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.

 

COMMONWEALTH

Com "mon *wealth `, n. Etym: [Common + wealth well-being. ]

 

1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

 

Note: This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class.

 

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.

 

3. (Eng. Hist. )

 

Defn: Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

 

Syn. -- State; realm; republic.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

common

com mon |ˈkämən ˈkɑmən | ▶adjective ( commoner , commonest ) 1 occurring, found, or done often; prevalent: salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings | it's common for a woman to be depressed after giving birth. • (of an animal or plant ) found or living in relatively large numbers; not rare. • ordinary; of ordinary qualities; without special rank or position: the dwellings of common people | a common soldier. • (of a quality ) of a sort or level to be generally expected: common decency. • of the most familiar type: the common or vernacular name. • denoting the most widespread or typical species of an animal or plant: the common blue spruce. 2 showing a lack of taste and refinement; vulgar. 3 shared by, coming from, or done by more than one: the two republics' common border | problems common to both communities. • belonging to, open to, or affecting the whole of a community or the public: common land. • Mathematics belonging to two or more quantities. 4 Grammar (in Latin and certain other languages ) of or denoting a gender of nouns that are conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine, contrasting with neuter. • (in English ) denoting a noun that refers to individuals of either sex (e.g., teacher ). 5 Prosody (of a syllable ) able to be either short or long. 6 Law (of a crime ) of relatively minor importance: common assault. ▶noun 1 a piece of open land for public use, esp. in a village or town. 2 (in the Christian Church ) a form of service used for each of a group of occasions. PHRASES the common good the benefit or interests of all: it is time our elected officials stood up for the common good. common ground opinions or interests shared by each of two or more parties: artists from different cultural backgrounds found common ground. common knowledge something known by most people. common or garden Brit. informal of the usual or ordinary type: a yak is your basic common or garden cow, only bigger, hairier, and wilder. common property a thing or things held jointly. • something known by most people. the common touch the ability to get along with or appeal to ordinary people. in common 1 in joint use or possession; shared: car engines have nothing in common with aircraft engines. 2 of joint interest: the two men had little in common. See also tenancy in common. in common with in the same way as: in common with other officers, I had to undertake guard duties. DERIVATIVES com mon ness noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French comun (adjective ), from Latin communis.

 

commonable

com mon a ble |ˈkämənəbəl ˈkɑmənəbəl | ▶adjective Brit. chiefly historical (of land ) allowed to be jointly used or owned. • (of an animal ) allowed to be pastured on public land: these Acts exclude the deer and commonable cattle. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete common ‘to exercise right of common ’ + -able .

 

commonage

com mon age |ˈkämənij ˈkɑmənɪʤ | ▶noun 1 chiefly Brit. the right of pasturing animals on common land. • land held in common. 2 the common people; the commonalty.

 

Common Agricultural Policy

Com mon Ag ri cul tur al Pol i cy (abbr.: CAP ) the system in the EU for establishing common prices for most agricultural products within the European Union, a single fund for price supports, and levies on imports.

 

commonality

com mon al i ty |ˌkämənˈalitē ˌkɑmənˈælədi | ▶noun ( pl. commonalities ) 1 the state of sharing features or attributes: a commonality of interest ensures cooperation. • a shared feature or attribute: we discern the commonalities between these writers. 2 (the commonality ) another term for commonalty. ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2: variant of commonalty. Sense 1 dates from the mid 16th cent. , but was rarely used before the 1950s.

 

commonalty

com mon al ty |ˈkämənl -tē ˈkɑmənəlti | ▶noun (treated as pl. the commonalty ) chiefly historical people without special rank or position; common people: a petition by the earls, barons, and commonalty of the realm. • the general body of a group. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French comunalte, from medieval Latin communalitas, from Latin communis ‘common, general ’ (see common ).

 

common carrier

com mon car ri er ▶noun a person or company that transports goods or passengers on regular routes at set rates. • a company providing public telecommunications facilities.

 

common chord

com mon chord ▶noun Music a triad containing a root, a major or minor third, and a perfect fifth.

 

common cold

com mon cold |ˈkɑmən koʊld | ▶noun (the common cold ) another term for cold ( sense 2 of the noun ).

 

common council

com mon coun cil ▶noun a town or city council in some parts of the US and Canada, and in London.

 

common denominator

com mon de nom i na tor |ˈkɑmən dəˈnɑməˌneɪdər | ▶noun Mathematics a shared multiple of the denominators of several fractions. See also lowest common denominator. • a feature shared by all members of a group: the common denominator for the fevers was the bite of a tick.

 

common divisor

com mon di vi sor ▶noun Mathematics a number that can be divided into all of the other numbers of a given set without any remainder. Also called common factor.

 

Common Entrance

Common Entrance |kɒmənˈɛntrəns | ▶noun Brit. an examination taken, usually at 13, by pupils wishing to enter public schools.

 

commoner

com mon er |ˈkämənər ˈkɑmənər | ▶noun 1 an ordinary person, without rank or title. 2 a person who has the right of common (commonage ). 3 (at some British universities ) an undergraduate who does not have a scholarship. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a citizen or burgess ): from medieval Latin communarius, from communa, communia ‘community, ’ based on Latin communis (see common ).

 

Common Era

Com mon E ra |ˈkɑmən ˈɛrə | ▶noun (the Common Era ) another term for Christian era.

 

common fraction

com mon frac tion ▶noun a fraction expressed by a numerator and a denominator, not decimally.

 

common gender

com mon gen der ▶noun 1 the gender of those nouns in English that are not limited to either sex, such as cousin or spouse. 2 in some languages, such as Latin, the gender of those nouns that may be either masculine or feminine but not neuter. 3 in some languages, such as modern Danish, the gender of those nouns derived from the earlier masculine and feminine genders that do not belong to the neuter gender.

 

common gull

com ¦mon gull ▶noun a migratory gull with greenish-grey legs, found locally in northern and eastern Eurasia and NW North America. ●Larus canus, family Laridae.

 

commonhold

com ¦mon |hold |ˈkɒmənhəʊld | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. a system of freehold tenure of a unit within a multi-occupancy building, but with shared responsibility for common services.

 

common jury

com ¦mon jury ▶noun Brit. historical a jury for which no qualification of property or social standing was required. Compare with special jury.

 

common law

com mon law |ˈkɑmən ˈˌlɔ | ▶noun the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law. • the body of English law as adopted and modified separately by the different states of the US and by the federal government. Compare with civil law. • [ as modifier ] denoting a partner in a marriage by common law (which recognized unions created by mutual agreement and public behavior ), not by a civil or ecclesiastical ceremony: a common-law husband. • [ as modifier ] denoting a partner in a long-term relationship of cohabitation.

 

common logarithm

com mon log a rithm ▶noun a logarithm to the base 10.

 

commonly

com mon ly |ˈkämənlē ˈkɑmənli | ▶adverb very often; frequently: BSE, commonly called mad cow disease | a commonly used industrial chemical.

 

common market

com mon mar ket |ˈkɑmən ˈmɑrkət | ▶noun a group of countries imposing few or no duties on trade with one another and a common tariff on trade with other countries. • ( the Common Market ) a name for the European Economic Community or European Union, used esp. in the 1960s and 1970s.

 

common meter

com mon me ter (also common measure ) (abbr.: CM ) ▶noun a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab.

 

common multiple

com mon mul ti ple ▶noun Mathematics a number into which each number in a given set may be evenly divided.

 

common noun

com mon noun |ˈkɑmən naʊn | ▶noun Grammar a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual. Often contrasted with proper noun.

 

commonplace

com mon place |ˈkämənˌplās ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs | ▶adjective not unusual; ordinary: unemployment was commonplace in his profession. • not interesting or original; trite: the usual commonplace remarks. ▶noun 1 a usual or ordinary thing: bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there. • a trite saying or topic; a platitude: it is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated. 2 a notable quotation copied into a commonplace book. DERIVATIVES com mon place ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally common place ): translation of Latin locus communis, rendering Greek koinos topos ‘general theme. ’

 

commonplace book

com mon place book |ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs ˌbʊk | ▶noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.

 

Common Pleas

Com mon Pleas (in full Court of Common Pleas ) Law (in some jurisdictions ) a court for hearing civil cases between citizens.

 

common porpoise

com mon por poise another term for harbor porpoise.

 

Common Prayer

Com mon Prayer the liturgy of the Anglican Communion, originally set forth in the Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI (1549 ).

 

common rat

com mon rat |ˈkɑmən ræt | ▶noun another term for brown rat.

 

common room

com mon room |ˈkɑmən ˌrum | ▶noun a room in a school, college, or other institution for use of students or staff outside teaching hours.

 

commons

com mons |ˈkämənz ˈkɑmənz | ▶plural noun 1 a dining hall in a residential school or college. 2 [ treated as sing. ] land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community. 3 ( the Commons ) short for House of Commons. • historical the common people regarded as a part of a political system, esp. in Britain. 4 archaic provisions shared in common; rations. PHRASES short commons archaic insufficient allocation of food: for two weeks we have been on short commons. ORIGIN Middle English: plural of common .

 

common salt

com mon salt ▶noun see salt ( sense 1 of the noun ).

 

common seal

common seal 1 ▶noun a seal with a mottled grey-brown coat and a concave profile, found along North Atlantic and North Pacific coasts. ●Phoca vitulina, family Phocidae.

 

common seal

common seal 2 ▶noun an official seal of a corporate body.

 

common sense

com mon sense |ˌkɑmən ˈsɛns | ▶noun good sense and sound judgment in practical matters: use your common sense | [ as modifier ] : a common-sense approach. DERIVATIVES com mon sen si cal |ˌkämənˈsensikəl |adjective

 

Common Serjeant

Com ¦mon Ser |jeant ▶noun (in the UK ) a circuit judge of the Central Criminal Court with duties in the City of London.

 

common soldier

com mon sol dier ▶noun see soldier ( sense 1 of the noun ).

 

common stock

com mon stock ▶plural noun (also common stocks ) shares entitling their holder to dividends that vary in amount and may even be missed, depending on the fortunes of the company: the company announced a public offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock. Compare with preferred stock.

 

common time

com mon time ▶noun Music a rhythmic pattern in which there are four beats, esp. four quarter notes, in a measure. This pattern occurs often in classical music and is the norm in rock, jazz, country, and bluegrass.

 

commonweal

com mon weal |ˈkämənˌwēl ˈkɑmənwil | ▶noun (the commonweal ) the welfare of the public.

 

commonwealth

com mon wealth |ˈkämənˌwelTH ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ | ▶noun 1 an independent country or community, esp. a democratic republic. • an aggregate or grouping of countries or other bodies. • a community or organization of shared interests in a nonpolitical field: the Christian commonwealth | the commonwealth of letters. • a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US, such as Puerto Rico. • a formal title of some of the states of the US, esp. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. • the title of the federated Australian states. • ( the Commonwealth ) the republican period of government in Britain between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. 2 ( the Commonwealth ) (in full the Commonwealth of Nations ) an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth. 3 (the commonwealth ) archaic the general good. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as two words, denoting public welfare; compare with commonweal ): from common + wealth .

 

Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth Day |ˈkɒmənwɛlθdeɪ | ▶noun the second Monday in March, on which the British Commonwealth is celebrated. It was instituted to commemorate assistance given to Britain by the colonies during the Boer War (1899 –1902 ). Formerly called Empire Day.

 

Commonwealth Games

Com mon wealth Games an amateur sports competition held every four years between member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.

 

Commonwealth of Independent States

Com mon wealth of In de pend ent States (abbr.: CIS ) a confederation of independent states that were formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union, established in 1991. Member states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

 

Common Worship

Com mon Wor ship ▶noun a book containing the public liturgy of the Church of England, published in 2000 to replace the Alternative Service Book.

 

Oxford Dictionary

common

com ¦mon |ˈkɒmən | ▶adjective ( commoner, commonest ) 1 occurring, found, or done often; prevalent: salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings | it's common for a woman to be depressed after giving birth. • (of an animal or plant ) found or living in relatively large numbers; not rare. • denoting the most widespread or typical species of an animal or plant: the common gull. • ordinary; of ordinary qualities; without special rank or position: the dwellings of common people | a common soldier. • (of a quality ) of a sort or level to be generally expected: common decency. • of the most familiar type: the common or vernacular name. 2 shared by, coming from, or done by two or more people, groups, or things: the two republics' common border | problems common to both communities. • belonging to or involving the whole of a community or the public at large: common land. • Mathematics belonging to two or more quantities. 3 Brit. showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar: she's so common. 4 Grammar (in Latin, Dutch, and certain other languages ) of or denoting a gender of nouns that are conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine, contrasting with neuter. • (in English ) denoting a noun that refers to individuals of either sex (e.g. teacher ). 5 Prosody (of a syllable ) able to be either short or long. 6 Law (of a crime ) of lesser severity: common assault. ▶noun 1 a piece of open land for public use. 2 Brit. informal common sense. 3 (in the Christian Church ) a form of service used for each of a group of occasions. 4 (also right of common ) English Law a person's right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage or mineral extraction. PHRASES common currency 1 a system of money shared by two or more countries. 2 something shared by different groups: a shared humanity is the common currency. common form what is usually done; accepted procedure. the common good the benefit or interests of all: it is time our elected officials stood up for the common good. common ground opinions or interests shared by each of two or more parties: artists from different cultural backgrounds found common ground. common knowledge something known by most people. common or garden Brit. informal of the usual or ordinary type: a common or garden family saloon car. common property a thing or things held jointly. • something known by most people. common thread a theme or characteristic found in various stories or situations: a common thread through most of the stories is the support from the family. the common touch the ability to get on with or appeal to ordinary people. have something in common have a specified amount or degree of shared interests or characteristics: they had one thing in common, an obsession with rock and roll. in common in joint use or possession; shared: a sect that had wives in common. • Law held or owned by two or more people each having undivided possession but with distinct, separately transferable interests. in common with in the same way as: in common with other officers I had to undertake guard duties. out of the common Brit. rarely occurring; unusual. DERIVATIVES commonness |ˈkɒmənnɪs |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French comun (adjective ), from Latin communis.

 

commonable

com ¦mon |able |ˈkɒmənəb (ə )l | ▶adjective Brit., chiefly historical (of land ) allowed to be jointly used or owned. • (of an animal ) allowed to be pastured on public land. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete common ‘to exercise right of common ’ + -able .

 

commonage

com ¦mon |age |ˈkɒmənɪdʒ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] chiefly Brit. 1 the right of pasturing animals on common land. • land held in common. 2 the common people; the commonalty.

 

Common Agricultural Policy

Common Agricultural Policy the system in the EU for establishing common prices for most agricultural products within the European Union, a single fund for price supports, and levies on imports.

 

commonality

com ¦mon |al ¦ity |kɒməˈnalɪti | ▶noun ( pl. commonalities ) 1 [ mass noun ] the state of sharing features or attributes: the explanations show a high degree of commonality in their reasoning | [ in sing. ] : a commonality of interest ensures cooperation. • [ count noun ] a shared feature or attribute: we discern the commonalities between these writers. 2 (the commonality ) another term for commonalty. ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2 ): variant of commonalty. Sense 1 dates from the mid 16th cent. , but was rarely used before the 1950s.

 

commonalty

commonalty |ˈkɒmən (ə )lti | ▶noun [ treated as pl. ] (the commonalty ) chiefly historical people without special rank or position, usually viewed as an estate of the realm: a petition by the earls, barons, and commonalty of the realm. • the general body of a group: the expression seems to be spreading from teenagers to the broad commonalty. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French comunalte, from medieval Latin communalitas, from Latin communis ‘common, general ’ (see common ).

 

common carrier

com ¦mon car |rier ▶noun a person or company undertaking to transport any goods or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates. • N. Amer. a company providing public telecommunications facilities.

 

common chord

com ¦mon chord ▶noun Music a triad containing a root, a major or minor third, and a perfect fifth.

 

common cold

com ¦mon cold ▶noun (the common cold ) another term for cold ( sense 2 of the noun ).

 

common council

com ¦mon coun |cil ▶noun a town or city council, now only in London and some parts of Canada and the US.

 

common denominator

com ¦mon de |nom ¦in |ator ▶noun Mathematics a common multiple of the denominators of several fractions. See also lowest common denominator, least common denominator. • a feature shared by all members of a group: the common denominator in these companies is the awareness of the importance of quality.

 

common divisor

com mon di vi sor ▶noun Mathematics a number that can be divided into all of the other numbers of a given set without any remainder. Also called common factor.

 

Common Entrance

Common Entrance |kɒmənˈɛntrəns | ▶noun Brit. an examination taken, usually at 13, by pupils wishing to enter public schools.

 

commoner

com |mon ¦er |ˈkɒmənə | ▶noun 1 one of the ordinary or common people, as opposed to the aristocracy or to royalty. 2 a person who has a right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage or mineral extraction. 3 (at some British universities ) an undergraduate who does not have a scholarship. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a citizen or burgess ): from medieval Latin communarius, from communa, communia ‘community ’, based on Latin communis (see common ).

 

Common Era

Common Era ▶noun (the Common Era ) another term for Christian era.

 

common fraction

com mon frac tion ▶noun a fraction expressed by a numerator and a denominator, not decimally.

 

common gender

com mon gen der ▶noun 1 the gender of those nouns in English that are not limited to either sex, such as cousin or spouse. 2 in some languages, such as Latin, the gender of those nouns that may be either masculine or feminine but not neuter. 3 in some languages, such as modern Danish, the gender of those nouns derived from the earlier masculine and feminine genders that do not belong to the neuter gender.

 

common gull

com ¦mon gull ▶noun a migratory gull with greenish-grey legs, found locally in northern and eastern Eurasia and NW North America. ●Larus canus, family Laridae.

 

commonhold

com ¦mon |hold |ˈkɒmənhəʊld | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. a system of freehold tenure of a unit within a multi-occupancy building, but with shared responsibility for common services.

 

common jury

com ¦mon jury ▶noun Brit. historical a jury for which no qualification of property or social standing was required. Compare with special jury.

 

common law

com ¦mon law ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Compare with case law, statute law. • the body of English law as adopted and adapted by the different States of the US. Compare with civil law. 2 [ as modifier ] denoting a partner in a marriage recognized in some jurisdictions (excluding the UK ) as valid by common law, though not brought about by a civil or ecclesiastical ceremony: a common-law husband. • denoting a partner in a relationship in which a man and woman cohabit for a period long enough to suggest stability.

 

common logarithm

com ¦mon loga |rithm ▶noun a logarithm to the base 10.

 

commonly

com |mon ¦ly |ˈkɒmənli | ▶adverb very often; frequently: a commonly used industrial chemical | shift workers commonly complain of not getting enough sleep.

 

common market

com ¦mon mar ¦ket ▶noun a group of countries imposing few or no duties on trade with one another and a common tariff on trade with other countries. • ( the Common Market ) a name for the European Economic Community or European Union, used especially in the 1960s and 1970s.

 

common metre

com ¦mon metre ▶noun [ mass noun ] a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately.

 

common multiple

com mon mul ti ple ▶noun Mathematics a number into which each number in a given set may be evenly divided.

 

common noun

com ¦mon noun ▶noun Grammar a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual. Often contrasted with proper noun.

 

commonplace

com ¦mon |place |ˈkɒmənpleɪs | ▶adjective not unusual; ordinary: unemployment was commonplace in his trade. • not interesting or original; trite: the usual commonplace remarks. ▶noun 1 a usual or ordinary thing: bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there. • a trite saying or topic; a platitude: it is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated. 2 a notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. DERIVATIVES commonplaceness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally common place ): translation of Latin locus communis, rendering Greek koinos topos ‘general theme ’.

 

commonplace book

com ¦mon |place book ▶noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.

 

Common Pleas

Common Pleas (in full Court of Common Pleas ) Law, historical a court for hearing civil cases between subjects or citizens not involving Crown or state.

 

Common Prayer

Common Prayer the Church of England liturgy, originally set forth in the Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI (1549 ) and revised in 1662.

 

common rat

com ¦mon rat ▶noun another term for brown rat.

 

common room

com ¦mon room ▶noun chiefly Brit. a room in a school or college for use of students or staff outside teaching hours.

 

commons

com |mons |ˈkɒmənz | ▶plural noun 1 ( the Commons ) short for House of Commons. • historical the common people regarded as a part of a political system, especially in Britain. 2 [ treated as sing. ] land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community. • US a dining hall in a school or college. 3 archaic provisions shared in common; rations. PHRASES short commons archaic insufficient allocation of food: a life of short commons. ORIGIN Middle English: plural of common .

 

common salt

com ¦mon salt ▶noun see salt ( sense 1 of the noun ).

 

common seal

common seal 1 ▶noun a seal with a mottled grey-brown coat and a concave profile, found along North Atlantic and North Pacific coasts. ●Phoca vitulina, family Phocidae.

 

common seal

common seal 2 ▶noun an official seal of a corporate body.

 

common sense

com ¦mon sense ▶noun [ mass noun ] good sense and sound judgement in practical matters: it is all a matter of common sense | [ as modifier ] : a common-sense approach. DERIVATIVES commonsensical adjective

 

Common Serjeant

Com ¦mon Ser |jeant ▶noun (in the UK ) a circuit judge of the Central Criminal Court with duties in the City of London.

 

common soldier

com ¦mon sol |dier ▶noun see soldier ( sense 1 of the noun ).

 

common stock

com ¦mon stock ▶plural noun (also common stocks ) [ mass noun ] N. Amer. ordinary shares.

 

common time

com ¦mon time ▶noun [ mass noun ] Music a rhythmic pattern in which there are two or four beats, especially four crotchets, in a bar.

 

commonweal

commonweal |ˈkɒmənwiːl | ▶noun (the commonweal ) archaic the welfare of the public.

 

commonwealth

com ¦mon |wealth |ˈkɒmənwɛlθ | ▶noun 1 an independent state or community, especially a democratic republic. • an aggregate or grouping of states or other bodies. • a community of shared interests in a non-political field: the Christian commonwealth | the commonwealth of letters. • a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US, such as Puerto Rico. • a formal title of some of the states of the US, especially Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. • the title of the federated Australian states. • ( the Commonwealth ) the republican period of government in Britain between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. 2 ( the Commonwealth ) (in full the Commonwealth of Nations ) an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. 3 (the commonwealth ) archaic the general good. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as two words, denoting public welfare; compare with commonweal ): from common + wealth .

 

Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth Day |ˈkɒmənwɛlθdeɪ | ▶noun the second Monday in March, on which the British Commonwealth is celebrated. It was instituted to commemorate assistance given to Britain by the colonies during the Boer War (1899 –1902 ). Formerly called Empire Day.

 

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games an amateur sports competition held every four years between member countries of the Commonwealth.

 

Commonwealth of Independent States

Commonwealth of Independent States (abbrev.: CIS ) a confederation of independent states, formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union, established in 1991. The member states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

 

Common Worship

Com mon Wor ship ▶noun a book containing the public liturgy of the Church of England, published in 2000 to replace the Alternative Service Book.

 

Common Worship

Common Worship ▶noun a book containing the public liturgy of the Church of England, published in 2000 to replace the Alternative Service Book.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

common

common adjective 1 the common folk: ordinary, normal, average, unexceptional; simple. 2 a very common art form: usual, ordinary, familiar, regular, frequent, recurrent, everyday; standard, typical, conventional, stock, commonplace, run-of-the-mill; informal garden variety. ANTONYMS unusual. 3 a common belief: widespread, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, conventional, traditional, orthodox, accepted. ANTONYMS rare. 4 the common good: collective, communal, community, public, popular, general; shared, combined. ANTONYMS individual, private. 5 they are far too common: uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, boorish, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unrefined, unsophisticated; lowly, low-born, low-class, inferior, proletarian, plebeian. ANTONYMS refined. WORD TOOLKIT See typical . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See prevalent . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

commonly

commonly adverb the hairy woodpecker is commonly mistaken for a downy woodpecker: often, frequently, regularly, repeatedly, time and (time ) again, all the time, routinely, habitually, customarily, oftentimes.

 

commonplace

commonplace adjective 1 a commonplace writing style: ordinary, run-of-the-mill, unremarkable, unexceptional, average, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, lackluster, dull, bland, uninteresting, mundane; hackneyed, trite, banal, clichéd, predictable, stale, tired, unoriginal; informal by-the-numbers, boilerplate, plain-vanilla, dime a dozen, bush-league. ANTONYMS original, outstanding. 2 a commonplace occurrence: common, normal, usual, ordinary, familiar, routine, standard, everyday, daily, regular, frequent, habitual, typical. ANTONYMS unusual. ▶noun 1 early death was a commonplace: everyday event, routine. 2 a great store of commonplaces: platitude, cliché, truism, hackneyed phrase, trite phrase, old chestnut, banality; dated bromide.

 

common sense

common sense noun I had the common sense to phone an ambulance instead of yelling at him to get up: good sense, sense, native wit, sensibleness, judgment, levelheadedness, prudence, discernment, canniness, astuteness, shrewdness, wisdom, insight, perception, perspicacity; practicality, capability, resourcefulness, enterprise; informal horse sense, gumption, savvy, smarts, street smarts. ANTONYMS folly.

 

commonsensical

commonsensical adjective the commonsensical thing would have been to check the supply cabinet before ordering more paper: sensible, reasonable, rational, prudent, smart, practical, realistic, levelheaded.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

common

common adjective 1 he gained a massive following among the common folk: ordinary, normal, typical, average, unexceptional, run-of-the-mill, plain, simple. 2 this booklet answers the most common questions asked | a very common art form: usual, ordinary, customary, habitual, familiar, regular, frequent, repeated, recurrent, routine, everyday, daily, day-to-day, quotidian, standard, typical; conventional, stock, stereotyped, predictable, commonplace, mundane, run-of-the-mill; literary wonted. ANTONYMS unusual. 3 it is a common belief that elephants have long memories: widespread, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, well established, conventional, traditional, traditionalist, orthodox, accepted; in circulation, in force, in vogue. ANTONYMS rare. 4 they work together for the common good: collective, communal, community, public, popular, general; shared, joint, combined. ANTONYMS private, individual. 5 the fishermen's wives were far too common for my mother: uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross; lowly, low, low-born, low-ranking, low-class, inferior, humble, ignoble, proletarian, plebeian; informal plebby, slobbish, cloddish, clodhopping; Brit. informal common as muck; archaic baseborn. ANTONYMS refined; noble. ▶noun Brit. informal use a bit of common! See common sense. WORD TOOLKIT common See typical . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

commonly

commonly adverb shift workers commonly complain of not being able to sleep: often, frequently, regularly, repeatedly, recurrently, time and again, time and time again, over and over, all the time, routinely, habitually, customarily; N. Amer. oftentimes; informal lots; literary oft, oft-times. ANTONYMS rarely.

 

commonplace

commonplace adjective 1 he had a tame and commonplace style of writing: ordinary, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, uninspired, unexciting, unmemorable, forgettable, indifferent, average, so-so, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, lacklustre, dull, bland, uninteresting, mundane, everyday, quotidian, humdrum, hackneyed, trite, banal, clichéd, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, unoriginal, derivative; Brit. common or garden; N. Amer. garden variety; informal nothing to write home about, nothing to get excited about, no great shakes, not so hot, not up to much, vanilla, plain vanilla, bog-standard, a dime a dozen, old hat, corny, played out; Brit. informal not much cop, ten a penny; N. Amer. informal ornery, bush-league, cornball, dime-store; Austral. /NZ informal half-pie. ANTONYMS outstanding; original. 2 business trips abroad are now commonplace occurrences: common, normal, usual, ordinary, familiar, routine, standard, everyday, day-to-day, daily, regular, frequent, habitual, conventional, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable. ANTONYMS unusual. ▶noun 1 early death was a commonplace in those days: everyday thing /event; routine, nothing out of the ordinary. 2 he had a great store of commonplaces which he adapted to any subject: platitude, cliché, truism, hackneyed /trite /banal /overworked saying, stock phrase, old chestnut, banality, bromide.

 

common sense

common sense noun he is quick to praise her professionalism and common sense: good sense, sense, sensibleness, native wit, native intelligence, mother wit, wit, judgement, sound judgement, level-headedness, prudence, discernment, acumen, sharpness, sharp-wittedness, canniness, astuteness, shrewdness, judiciousness, wisdom, insight, intuition, intuitiveness, perceptiveness, perspicacity, vision, understanding, intelligence, reason, powers of reasoning; practicality, capability, initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise; informal horse sense, gumption, nous, savvy, know-how; Brit. informal common; N. Amer. informal smarts; rare sapience, arguteness. ANTONYMS folly.

 

Duden Dictionary

Common Law

Com mon Law Substantiv, Neutrum Rechtswissenschaft , das |kɔmənˈlɔː |das Common Law; Genitiv: des Common Law englisch a das für alle Personen im englischen Königreich einheitlich geltende Recht im Unterschied zu den örtlichen Gewohnheitsrechten b das in England entwickelte Recht im Unterschied zu den aus dem römischen Recht abgeleiteten Rechtsordnungen; vgl. Statute Law

 

Common Prayer-Book

Com mon Pray er-Book Substantiv, Neutrum , das |kɔmən ˈprɛəbʊk |das Common Prayer-Book; Genitiv: des Common Prayer-Book zu englisch Common Prayer »Liturgie der anglikanischen Kirche «, als Kurzform von Book of Common Prayer »Allgemeines Gebetbuch «, dies zu common prayer »gemeinsames Gebet «Bekenntnis- und Kirchenordnungsgrundlage der anglikanischen Kirche

 

Common-Rail-System

Com mon-Rail-Sys tem Substantiv, Neutrum Technik , das |…ˈreːl …|englisch ; griechisch Einspritzsystem für Dieselmotoren mit nur einer Hochdruckpumpe für alle Düsen im Unterschied zum Pumpe-Düse -Prinzip

 

Common Sense

Com mon Sense , Com mon sense Substantiv, maskulin bildungssprachlich , der Commonsense |ˈkɔmən ˈsɛns auch ˈkɔmənsɛns ˈkɔmən ˈsɛns auch ˈkɔmənsɛns |der Common Sense; Genitiv: des Common Sense der Commonsense; Genitiv: des Commonsense englisch common sense, zu: sense = Sinn, Verstand < lateinisch sensus (sensuell ) gesunder Menschenverstand

 

Commonwealth

Com mon wealth Substantiv, Neutrum , das |ˈkɔmənwɛlθ |das Commonwealth; Genitiv: des Commonwealth englisch commonwealth, zu: wealth = Reichtum, Wohl (ergehen ), also eigentlich = Gemeinwohl lose Gemeinschaft der noch mit Großbritannien verbundenen Völker des ehemaligen britischen Weltreichs

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

common

com mon /kɑ́mən |kɔ́m -/〖com (共に )mon (義務を負わされた )〗形容詞 more ～; most ～/｟まれ ｠～er ; ～est 1 普通の ; «…の間で » よくある , ありふれた «among » (↔uncommon, rare 1 )▸ a common event [sight ]普通の出来事 [よく見る光景 ]▸ a flower common in English fields 英国の野によく見かける草花 ▸ a common occurrence よくあること ▸ Refrigerators became common among the public in 1960s .冷蔵庫は1960年代に一般に普及した ▸ It is quite common for girls to play soccer in Shizuoka .静岡では女の子がサッカーをするのは全然珍しいことではない (╳It is common that … としない )類義 コーパス commonとusual, ordinary いずれも 「普通の, ありふれた 」という意味を表すが, common は多くの場面で見られることに, usual は高い頻度で見られることに, それぞれ重点がおかれる. したがって特定の個人などについてcommonを用いることはできない ▸ as is usual [╳common ] with him 彼にはよくあることだが .ordinary はとりたてて目立つところがなく普通であることを表す. またcommonやusualと異なり, it is ～ to doの構文で用いることはできない .2 比較なし 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗 «…に » 共通の , 共有の , 共同の «to » ; 公共の (!集団などの共通性をいう; ↑類義 ) ▸ You and I share [have ] a common interest .君と僕とは興味が一致している ▸ by common consent 異議なく, 異口同音に ▸ English as a common language 共通言語としての英語 ▸ This characteristic is common to all mammals .この特徴はすべての哺乳類に共通である ▸ for the common good 公衆の利益のために 3 比較なし 〖名詞 の前で 〗通常の , 普通の ; 平凡な, 月並みな ▸ a common practice 通常の方法 ▸ a common student 並みの学生 ▸ the common man [people ]一般民衆 ▸ To some people he was a hero and to others a common thief .一部の人にとって彼は英雄であったが, ほかの人にとってはただの泥棒でしかなかった 4 比較なし 一般的な, 広く知られた ; 当たり前の ▸ a common belief 広く信じられていること ▸ It's a common courtesy [decency ] to knock on the door .ドアをノックすることは当たり前の礼儀だ .5 ｟主に英 やや古 非難して ｠〈人 ふるまいが 〉下品な , 粗野な ; 〈物が 〉粗末な (↔refined ).6 比較なし 〘数 〙共通の, 公約の ; 〘言 〙(音節が )長短共通の .c ò mmon or g á rden ＝common-or-garden .名詞 1 a. C 〖｟米 ｠ではしばしばthe ～s 〗(村 町にある )共有地 , 公有地 ▸ walk my dog on the common 町の共有地で犬を散歩させる b. 〖主に名称で; C- 〗…公園 .2 〖～s 〗＝commons .3 C 〘キリスト教 〙(特定式典の )礼拝式 (文 ).4 C 〘法 〙入会 （いりあい ）権 〘土地 水域の共有権 〙.5 ｟英俗 ｠＝common sense .h à ve A in c ó mmon 〈人 物などが 〉【人 物などと 】共通のA 〈事 〉をもつ «with » (!Aはa lot, something, nothingなど ) ▸ Susan and Mary have little in common .≒Susan has little in common with Mary .スーザンとメリーに共通点はほとんどない in c ó mmon 1 ｟かたく ｠ «…と » 同じように «with » ▸ Dave, in common with many others, was disappointed with the government's policy .デイヴはほかの人たちと同じように政府の政策に失望していた 2 共通に, 共同で ▸ The couple owns the company in common .2人は共同で会社を所有している ò ut of the c ó mmon 並はずれた, 珍しい .～̀ c á rrier 運輸業者 [会社 ] 〘鉄道 バス 通運などの業者 [会社 ]; 米国では広義には通信業者 [会社 ]をも含める 〙.～̀ ch ó rd 〘楽 〙長三和音 .～̀ c ó ld 〖the ～; 通例単数形で 〗(普通の )かぜ .～̀ cr í minal 常習犯 .～̀ c ú rrency 一般に普及しているもの, 通常のもの ; 〘経 〙共通通貨 .～̀ den ó minator 〖通例単数形で 〗1 共通点 .2 〘数 〙公分母 .～̀ div í sor [f á ctor ]〘数 〙公約数 .～́ è ntrance ｟英 ｠〖通例C - E- 〗パブリックスクール共通入学試験 .C -̀ É ra 〖the ～〗＝Christian era .～̀ fr á ction ｟米 ｠〘数 〙分数 (→decimal fraction ).～̀ g é nder 〘文法 〙通性 〘男女両性に通ずる (代 )名詞; parentなど 〙.～̀ gr ó und (議論の )共通基盤 .～́ j ù ry 〘法 〙普通陪審 .～̀ kn ó wledge だれもが知っていること, 常識 ▸ It is common knowledge that ……ということはよく知られている ～́ l à nd ｟英 ｠共有地 .～̀ l á w 普通法, 慣習法 (↔statute law ; →common-law ).～̀ m á rket 1 (多国間の )自由貿易機関 .2 〖the C- M- 〗ヨーロッパ経済共同体 〘正式名the European Economic Community; ヨーロッパ連合 (European Union )の前身 〙.～̀ m é ter [m é asure ]〘詩学 〙普通律 〘賛美歌に多い詩形 〙.～̀ m ú ltiple 〘数 〙公倍数 .～̀ n ó un [n á me ]〘文法 〙普通名詞 .～̀ pl é as 〘法 〙民事訴訟 (裁判所 ).C -̀ Pr á yer 〖the ～〗〘英国教 〙共通祈禱 （きとう ）文 .～́ r ò om ｟主に英 ｠(大学などの )談話室 .～̀ s á lt 食塩 .～́ sch ò ol ｟米 ｠公立小学校 .～̀ s é nse 常識, 良識, 分別 (!理性的な判断を表す; 知識に関する常識は ～ knowledge ) ▸ Use your common sense .常識で考えなさい ～̀ st ó ck ｟米 ｠普通株 (→preferred stock ).～̀ t í me 〘楽 〙普通拍子 〘2拍子または4拍子, 特に4分の4拍子 〙.～̀ t ó uch ｟ほめて ｠〖通例the ～〗(権力者や有名人の )庶民性, 親しみやすさ .～́ y è ar 平年 〘うるう年 (leap year )でない年 〙.～ness 名詞

 

commonality

com mon al i ty /kɑ̀mənǽləti |kɔ̀m -/名詞 複 -ties U C ｟かたく ｠1 共通点 [性 ].2 ＝commonalty 1 .

 

commonalty

com mon al ty /kɑ́mən (ə )lti |kɔ́m -/名詞 複 -ties ｟かたく ｠1 U 〖the ～; 単複両扱い 〗一般民衆, 大衆 .2 C 法人 ; 共同体 .

 

commoner

com mon er /kɑ́mənə r |kɔ́m -/名詞 C 1 (貴族に対して )平民, 庶民 .2 ｟英 ｠(Oxford大学でフェローや奨学生でない )自費生 .3 入会 （いりあい ）権所有者 .

 

common-law

c ò mmon-l á w 形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗慣習法による ; 内縁の .～̀ h ú sband [w í fe ]内縁の夫 [妻 ].

 

commonly

com mon ly /kɑ́mənli |kɔ́m -/→common 副詞 1 more ～; most ～普通に ; 頻繁に, たくさん ▸ a commonly asked question よくある質問 .2 比較なし 通例, 一般に ▸ be commonly known as A 一般にAとして知られている .

 

common-or-garden

c ò mmon-or-g á rden 形容詞 ｟英 くだけて ｠ごくありふれた, 普通の, 月並みな (｟米 ｠garden-variety ).

 

commonplace

com mon place /kɑ́mənplèɪs |kɔ́m -/〖原義は 名詞 2 ; 形容詞 の用法は17世紀から 〗形容詞 more ～; most ～1 〖通例be ～〗ごく普通の , よくある [見られる ], ありふれた ▸ Cell phones have become commonplace .携帯電話は普通のものになった 2 〈言葉 表現などが 〉ありきたりの , 陳腐な .名詞 C ｟かたく ｠1 〖通例a ～〗ごく普通の [よくある ]事 [物 ]▸ Crimes are a commonplace in the neighborhood .その界隈では犯罪は日常茶飯事だ 2 a. 〖通例a ～〗ありきたりの [陳腐な ]発言 [意見 ], 決まり文句 ; (引用の )名言, 名句 .b. 〖the ～〗平凡 [退屈 ] (な事 ).

 

commons

c ó m mons 名詞 1 〖the C-; 複数扱い 〗(英国 カナダなどの )下院 (House of Commons ); 〖集合的に 〗下院議員 .2 〖単複両扱い 〗(大学などの )定食 .3 〖単数扱い 〗(特に大学の )大食堂, 学生食堂 .4 〖the ～; 複数扱い 〗｟古 ｠平民 .

 

commonsense

c ò mmon s é nse 形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗常識的な 〈解決策 予防策など 〉; 明らかな .

 

commonweal

common weal /kɑ́mənwìːl |kɔ́m -/名詞 ｟古 ｠1 U 〖the ～〗公共の福利 .2 C 共和国 .

 

commonwealth

com mon wealth /kɑ́mənwèlθ |kɔ́m -/〖common (公共の )wealth (富 )〗名詞 複 ～s /-s /1 〖通例the C- 〗イギリス連邦 , 英連邦 (the Commonwealth of Nations ) 〘イギリスおよび旧大英帝国の一部であった独立国といくつかの属領からなる自由連合体; 英国王 [女王 ]を共通の象徴としてまた元首として認めている 〙.2 ｟かたく ｠〖the C- 〗(国の公式名としての )連邦 , 共和国 ; (複数の国家からなる )連邦 , 共同体 ▸ the Commonwealth of Australia [the Bahamas ]オーストラリア [バハマ ]連邦 3 ｟米 ｠〖the C- 〗州 , 自治領 〘the C- of Kentucky [Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia ]の4州とthe C- of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islandsの自治領に用いる 〙.4 〖集合的に 〗国民 , 国家 .5 C (共通の利害を持った人々の )団体 .6 〖the C- 〗イギリス共和国 (the Commonwealth of England )(の時代 ) 〘君主制廃止 (1649 )から護国官制成立まで, もしくは王政復古 (1660 )までをいう 〙.C -́ D à y 〖the ～〗英連邦記念日 〘3月の第2月曜 〙.C -́ G à mes 〖the ～〗イギリス連邦競技大会 〘4年に1度開かれる 〙.C -̀ of Indep è ndent St á tes 〖the ～〗独立国家共同体 〘旧ソ連の12の共和国からなる; ｟略 ｠CIS 〙.