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commonness

Variant of common

adjective

  1. belonging equally to, or shared by, two or more or by all: the common interests of a group
  2. belonging or relating to the community at large; public: common carriers
  3. widely existing; general; prevalent: common knowledge
  4. widely but unfavorably known: a common criminal
    1. met with or occurring frequently; familiar; usual: a common sight
    2. basic; simple; rudimentary: common courtesy
  5. not of the upper classes; of the masses: the common man
  6. having no rank: a common soldier
  7. below ordinary; inferior: common ware
  8. not refined; vulgar; low; coarse
  9. Anat. formed of or dividing into branches
  10. Gram.
    1. designating a noun that refers to any of a group or class, as book, apple, street
    2. designating gender that can be either masculine or feminine: the word child is of common gender
  11. Math. belonging equally to two or more quantities: a common denominator

noun

  1. ☆ land owned or used by all the inhabitants of a place; tract of open public land, esp. as a park in a city or town
  2. Eccles.
    1. the office or service suitable for any of a class of festivals
    2. the ordinary of the Mass
  3. Law the right that a person has, in common with the owner or others, in the land or waters of another

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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