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▸ noun: (usually singular in construction) A common (common land); especially, a central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area.
▸ noun: (figuratively) The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.
▸ noun: The common people collectively, the third estate, the people not belonging to the nobility or clergy
▸ noun: (chiefly historical) The free burghers/bourgeoisie of a given town, taken collectively.
▸ noun: (euphemistic, obsolete) An outhouse.
▸ noun: (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.
▸ noun: Food in general; rations.
▸ noun: (UK politics, Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
▸ noun: A surname.
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common land,
park,
commonality,
commonalty,
green,
anticommons,
commoner,
commonage,
dissensus,
commonweal,
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