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common
Part of speech: AdjectiveBelonging equally to more than one; as common to the human race; public; usual; frequent; inferior; of low birth or origin; in grammar, applied to both masculine and feminine gender, or to any individual of a class; as, a common noun.
Part of speech: Noun Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "common":- He had more common sense and used it less than any man I ever saw. - "Jane Lends A Hand", Shirley Watkins.
- That was a common mistake; others made it in looking at Margaret's eyes. - "In the Heart of a Fool", William Allen White.
- It is found in a very great number of things besides these two, but these are the most common. - "Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy", Frank Richard Stockton.