- 3. Usual, frequent, habitual, customary, everyday, often met with.
- 4. Trite, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, common-place, worn out.
- 5. Ordinary, indifferent, inferior, vulgar, low, undistinguished (by high birth, attainments or character).
Commonalty, n. The common people (below the orders of nobility), the lower classes, commoners, the commons.
Commoner, n.
- 1. One of the commons, or common-people, untitled person.
- 2. Student not on a foundation, gentleman-commoner (Oxford), pensioner (Cambridge).
Common-law, n. Unwritten law.
Commonplace, a. Trite, stale, hackneyed, ordinary, common, threadbare, not new, worn out.
Common run.
- 1. Common or ordinary course,
- 2. Generality, mass, ordinary class.
Commons, n. pl.
- 1. Commonalty, the common people, untitled class, commoners.
- 2. Lower house of Parliament, House of Commons.
- 3. Common-table meals served in common (esp. at colleges).
- 4. Provisions, food, fare.
Common-sense, n.
- 1. Natural sagacity, good sense, sound sense or understanding, plain sense, good judgment, practical
discernment.
- 2. Ordinary sense, ordinary judgment, common view of things, usual way of looking at things.