ALL meanings of commonness
com·mon
C c - adjective commonness belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests. 1
- adjective commonness pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public: a common language or history; a common water-supply system. 1
- adjective commonness joint; united: a common defense. 1
- adjective commonness widespread; general; ordinary: common knowledge. 1
- adjective commonness of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common event; a common mistake. 1
- adjective commonness hackneyed; trite. 1
- adjective commonness of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low: a rough-textured suit of the most common fabric. 1
- adjective commonness coarse; vulgar: common manners. 1
- adjective commonness lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary: a common soldier; common people; the common man; a common thief. 1
- adjective commonness Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected. 1
- adjective commonness Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches: the common carotid arteries. 1
- adjective commonness Prosody. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short. 1
- adjective commonness Grammar. not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms: English nouns are in the common case whether used as subject or object. constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Swedish nouns are either common or neuter. noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female: French élève has common gender. English lacks a common gender pronoun in the third person singular. (of a noun) belonging to the common gender. 1
- adjective commonness Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities. 1
- adjective commonness of, relating to, or being common stock: common shares. 1
- noun commonness Often, commons. Chiefly New England. a tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town. 1
- noun commonness Law. the right or liberty, in common with other persons, to take profit from the land or waters of another, as by pasturing animals on another's land (common of pasturage) or fishing in another's waters (common of piscary) 1
- noun commonness commons, (used with a singular or plural verb) the commonalty; the nonruling class. the body of people not of noble birth or not ennobled, as represented in England by the House of Commons. (initial capital letter) the representatives of this body. (initial capital letter) the House of Commons. 1
- noun commonness commons. (used with a singular verb) a large dining room, especially at a university or college. (usually used with a plural verb) British. food provided in such a dining room. (usually used with a plural verb) food or provisions for any group. 1
- noun commonness (sometimes initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. an office or form of service used on a festival of a particular kind. the ordinary of the Mass, especially those parts sung by the choir. the part of the missal and breviary containing Masses and offices of those saints assigned to them. 1
- noun commonness Obsolete. the community or public. the common people. 1
- idioms commonness in common, in joint possession or use; shared equally: They have a love of adventure in common. 1
- noun commonness prevalence 1
- noun commonness The quality of being common. 1