Common
Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Profane; polluted.
Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
The people; the community.
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.
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.
To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
To participate.
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
To board together; to eat at a table in common.
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Common Quotations
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Common Translations
common in Afrikaans is gewoon
common in Dutch is algemeen, gemeenschappelijk
common in Finnish is yhteinen, tavallinen
common in French is couramment, concurremment, ordinaire, commun
common in German is allgemein, allgemein, zusammen
common in Italian is sciolto, ordinario, comune
common in Latin is communis, profanus, vulgaris
common in Norwegian is alminnelig, vanlig, felles
common in Portuguese is comum
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