Common

Common may refer to:

  • COMMON, the largest association of users of mid-range IBM computers
  • Common (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Common (liturgy), a part of certain Christian liturgy
  • Commoner, someone does not hold a title of peerage
  • Common land, land which other people have certain traditional rights such as grazing livestock or collecting firewood
  • Town common (see common land above)
  • Lingua franca or common language, shared by speakers of different mother tongues
  • Vernacular, the common but not scientific name of a plant or animal
  • The Common, a nickname of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • COMMON, a Fortran statement
  • a translation of tum'ah, a biblical term for ritual impurity, used by some common English translations of the bible
  • Dol Common, a character in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

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Famous quotes containing the word common:

    The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
    Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)

    It is a common accident for men camping in the woods to be killed by a falling tree.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)