| common | | |
| n. (location) | 1. common, commons, green, park | a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.; "they went for a walk in the park" |
| ~ amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground | a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| ~ populated area, urban area | a geographical area constituting a city or town. |
| ~ village green | a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land. |
| ~ central park | a large park in Manhattan. |
| adj. | 2. common | 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" |
| ~ communal | for or by a group rather than individuals.; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort" |
| ~ public | affecting the people or community as a whole.; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare" |
| ~ joint | united or combined.; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners" |
| adj. | 3. common | having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" |
| ~ average, ordinary | lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" |
| ~ democratic, popular | representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large.; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction" |
| ~ demotic | of or for the common people.; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms" |
| ~ frequent | frequently encountered.; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'" |
| ~ general | prevailing among and common to the general public.; "the general discontent" |
| ~ grassroots | of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group.; "a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament" |
| ~ standard | commonly used or supplied.; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment" |
| ~ usual | occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" |
| ~ ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" |
| adj. | 4. common, mutual | common to or shared by two or more parties.; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" |
| ~ shared | have in common; held or experienced in common.; "two shared valence electrons forming a bond between adjacent nuclei"; "a shared interest in philately" |
| adj. | 5. common, usual | commonly encountered.; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" |
| ~ familiar | within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange.; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences" |
| adj. | 6. common, vernacular, vulgar | being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" |
| ~ informal | used of spoken and written language. |
| adj. | 7. common, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar | of or associated with the great masses of people.; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" |
| ~ lowborn | of humble birth or origins.; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor" |
| adj. | 8. coarse, common | of low or inferior quality or value.; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| adj. | 9. coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar | lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" |
| ~ unrefined | (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" |
| adj. | 10. common | to be expected; standard.; "common decency" |
| ~ ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" |
| ordinary | | |
| n. (person) | 1. ordinary | a judge of a probate court. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ judge, jurist, justice | a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. |
| n. (state) | 2. ordinary | the expected or commonplace condition or situation.; "not out of the ordinary" |
| ~ condition | a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.; "the human condition" |
| n. (person) | 3. ordinary | a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death. |
| ~ clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend | a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. ordinary, ordinary bicycle | an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel. |
| ~ bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. ordinary | (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields. |
| ~ bend dexter, bend | diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left. |
| ~ armorial bearing, heraldic bearing, bearing, charge | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield. |
| ~ fess, fesse | (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield. |
| ~ heraldry | the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies. |
| ~ bend sinister, bar sinister | a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left. |
| adj. | 6. ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" |
| ~ common | having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" |
| ~ usual | occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" |
| ~ middling, mediocre, average, fair | lacking exceptional quality or ability.; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" |
| ~ banausic | (formal) ordinary and not refined.; "he felt contempt for all banausic occupations" |
| ~ characterless, nondescript | lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting.; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel" |
| ~ common | to be expected; standard.; "common decency" |
| ~ commonplace | completely ordinary and unremarkable.; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" |
| ~ cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry | according to ordinary expectations. |
| ~ everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday | found in the ordinary course of events.; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute" |
| ~ so-so, indifferent | being neither good nor bad.; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" |
| ~ mine run, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, unexceptional | not special in any way.; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career" |
| adj. | 7. average, ordinary | lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" |
| ~ common | having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" |
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