common
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Is common a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.Examples: "the common daisy (Bellis perennis)"
2. (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.Examples: "common name vs. scientific name."
3. (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.Examples: "common law"; "As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]"
4. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
5. (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.Synonyms: appellative
6. (obsolete) Profane; polluted.Examples: "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (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 (English)
1. (obsolete) To communicate (something).Examples: "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."obsolete
2. (obsolete) To converse, talk.Examples: "So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]"; "1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle Capitaine generall of Flaunders, which amiably enterteyned the sayd Duke, and after they had secretly commoned of."obsolete
3. (obsolete) To have sex.obsolete
4. (obsolete) To participate.obsolete
5. (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.obsolete
6. (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.obsolete
name (English)
1. (science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.Examples: "Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other."Synonyms: Standard
Definition source: Wiktionary