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/ˈkämən/
adjective
  1. occurring, found, or done often; prevalent.
    "salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings"
    synonyms: usual, ordinary, customary, habitual, familiar, regular, frequent, repeated, recurrent, routine, everyday, daily, day-to-day, quotidian, standard, typical, conventional, stock, stereotyped, predictable, commonplace, mundane, run-of-the-mill, wonted, widespread, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, well established, traditional, traditionalist, orthodox, accepted, in circulation, in force, in vogue
  2. shared by, coming from, or done by more than one.
    "the two republics' common border"
  3. showing a lack of taste and refinement; vulgar.
    "she's so common"
    synonyms: uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavory, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross, lowly, low, low-born, low-ranking, low-class, inferior, humble, ignoble, proletarian, plebeian, plebby, slobbish, cloddish, clodhopping, common as muck, baseborn
  4. (in Latin and certain other languages) of or denoting a gender of nouns that are conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine, contrasting with neuter.
  5. (of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
  6. (of a crime) of relatively minor importance.
    "common assault"

noun
  1. a piece of open land for public use, especially in a village or town.
    "we spent the morning tramping over the common looking for flowers"
  2. (in the Christian Church) a form of service used for each of a group of occasions.

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2 · belonging to or shared by two or more individuals or things or by all members of a group. a common friend. buried in a common grave. common interests.
adjective · having a specified relationship with a group of numbers or quantities. common denominator · (of a tangent) tangential to two or more circles.
belonging to or shared by two or more people or things: Guilt and forgiveness are themes common to all of her works.
/ˈkɒmən/ · adjective. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual · adjective. to be expected; ...
common in British English · 1. belonging to or shared by two or more people · 2. belonging to or shared by members of one or more nations or communities; public.
COMMON meaning: 1 : belonging to or shared by two or more people or groups; 2 : done by many people.
definition 1: shared with another or others. The two families use a common kitchen.My friends and I have a common interest in football.