Dictionary Entry
common
common is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as verb, noun, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
- 2verb
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.
- 3verb
Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
- 4verb
Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
- 5verb
Profane; polluted.
- 6verb
Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
- 7noun
The people; the community.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
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.
- 10intransitive verb
To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
- 11intransitive verb
To participate.
- 12intransitive verb
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
- 13intransitive verb
To board together; to eat at a table in common.
- 14noun
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
"they went for a walk in the park"
- 15adjective
having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
"the common man"
"a common sailor"
- 16adjective
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
"for the common good"
"common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
- 17adjective
commonly encountered
"a common (or familiar) complaint"
"the usual greeting"
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- 18adjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
"common parlance"
"a vernacular term"
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- 19adjective
of or associated with the great masses of people
"the common people in those days suffered greatly"
"behavior that branded him as common"
- 20adjective
to be expected; standard
"common decency"
- 21adjective
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
"he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"
"behavior that branded him as common"
- 22adjective
common to or shared by two or more parties
"a common friend"
"the mutual interests of management and labor"
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- 23adjective
of low or inferior quality or value- Shakespeare
"of what coarse metal ye are molded"
"produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
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