Mutual; shared by more than one.
The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.
Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
common knowledge, common decency, common sense
Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
It is common to find sharks off this coast.
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
To communicate (something).
Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.
A surname.
Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.
Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.
From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gamainī (“common”) in Old...
Select a language to see translations
The people; the community.
the weal o' the common
To converse, talk.
So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]
To have sex.