Definition of Common

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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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

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

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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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