common
Definition of common:
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part of speech: noun
A tract of open land, used in common by the inhabitants of a town, parish, etc.
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adjective
Belonging equally to more than one; serving for the use of all; usual or ordinary; without rank; not distinguished by superior excellence; in gram., applied to nouns that are both masc. and fem.
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part of speech: noun
A tract of ground belonging to no one in particular or open to the use of all.
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part of speech: adjective
Belonging equally to more than one: public: general: usual: frequent: easy to be had: of little value: vulgar.
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Common misspellings:
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- commom (11.6%)
- commmon (3.3%)
- comeon (0.1%)
- comeone (0.1%)
- commeon (0.2%)
- commo (0.2%)
- coment (0.1%)
- commong (1.3%)
- comen (0.2%)
- coomon (1.2%)
- continous (0.1%)
- comm (0.2%)
- consitant (0.1%)
- cmmon (0.4%)
- comman (10.3%)
- comminh (0.2%)
- comoon (0.6%)
- comum (0.2%)
- commont (0.1%)
- comon (29.9%)
- commun (3.4%)
- coomom (0.1%)
- commnon (0.2%)
- comun (0.1%)
- sommon (0.2%)
- commone (2.7%)
- comomn (0.2%)
- commin (2.9%)
- commen (28.4%)
- commond (0.4%)
- commn (0.3%)
- cummon (0.2%)
- commomn (0.2%)
- comion (0.2%)
- c'mon (0.2%)
- commoin (0.2%)
Usage examples for common:
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And so she smiled as she entered, looking for him with kindly eyes, as though there were nothing at all out of the common
"The Twilight of the Souls" – Louis Couperus -
Be reasonable, my child; I did not mean to wound you, but to give you a common sense view of the affair.
"'O Thou, My Austria!'" – Ossip Schubin -
Just common every- day people like myself.
"Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country" – Joel Chandler Harris -
There is something in common between these hands.
"Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
