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1. A person who holds no title
   - common man, common person

1. 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"
    
2. 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"
    
3. Common to or shared by two or more parties
   "a common friend"
   - mutual
    
4. Commonly encountered
   "a common complaint"
   - usual
    
5. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
   "common parlance"
   - vernacular, vulgar
    
6. Of or associated with the great masses of people
   "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behaviour that branded him as common"
   - plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
    
7. Of low or inferior quality or value
   "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
   - coarse
    
8. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
   "behaviour that branded him as common"
   - coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
    
9. To be expected; standard
   "common decency"

Derived forms: commoners

See also: average, commonality, commonly, commonness, commonplaceness, communal, democratic, demotic, everydayness, familiar, frequent, general, grassroots, inferior, informal, joint, lowborn, ordinary, popular, public, shared, standard, unrefined, usual

Type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: individual, uncommon

Encyclopedia: Common