common

1. common (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Mutual; shared by more than one.

Example: The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.

2. common (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Existing among virtually all people; universal.

Example: common knowledge, common decency, common sense

3. common (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

Example: It is common to find sharks off this coast.

Concept: Обыденность

Polarities of the concept

4. common (noun) — sense 4

Definition: Mutual good, shared by more than one.

5. common (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

Example: 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.

6. common (noun) — sense 6

Definition: The people; the community.

Example: the weal o' the common

7. common (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To communicate (something).

Example: 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.

8. common (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To converse, talk.

Example: So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]

9. common (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To have sex.