Usually means: Frequently occurring; shared by many.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word common:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. common: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. common: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. common: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. common: Collins English Dictionary
  5. common: Vocabulary.com
  6. Common, com'mon, common, common: Wordnik
  7. common: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. common: Wiktionary
  9. common: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. common: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. common: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. common: Dictionary.com
  13. common: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. common: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COMMON (CONFIG.SYS group), Common (artist), Common (behavior), Common (company), Common (disambiguation), Common (entertainer), Common (film), Common (horse), Common (language), Common (liturgy), Common (rapper), Common (script), Common, The Common (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. common: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. common: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. common: Free Dictionary
  19. common: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. common: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. common: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. The Common: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Common: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. common: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. common: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  5. common: Financial dictionary
  6. common: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. common: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. common: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. common: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. common: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. common: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. common: Coin Collecting
  3. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Mutual; shared by more than one.
adjective:  Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
adjective:  Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
adjective:  Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
adjective:  Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
adjective:  (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
adjective:  (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
adjective:  (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
adjective:  (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
adjective:  (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
adjective:  (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
noun:  Mutual good, shared by more than one.
noun:  A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
noun:  The people; the community.
noun:  (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
verb:  (obsolete) To communicate (something).
verb:  (obsolete) To converse, talk.
verb:  (obsolete) To have sex.
verb:  (obsolete) To participate.
verb:  (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
verb:  (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.

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