Common(n.) The people; the community.
Common(n.) 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.
Common(n.) 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(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
Common(v.) 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.
Common(v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
Common(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Common(v.) Profane; polluted.
Common(v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
Common(v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
Common(v. i.) To participate.
Common(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
Common(v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Commonable(a.) Held in common.
Commonable(a.) Allowed to pasture on public commons.
Commoner(n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Commoner(n.) A member of the House of Commons.
Commoner(n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.
Commoner(n.) One sharing with another in anything.
Commoner(n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
Commoner(n.) A prostitute.
Commonly(adv.) Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
Commonly(adv.) In common; familiarly.
Commonness(n.) State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
Commonness(n.) Triteness; meanness.
Commons(n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Commons(n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
Commons(n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.
Commons(n. pl.) 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.
Commons(n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.
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