Usually means: Shared resources accessible by community.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word commons:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Commons, commons, the Commons, the commons: Merriam-Webster
  2. commons, the Commons: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commons, the Commons: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Commons, commons: Vocabulary.com
  5. Common's, Commons, commons: Wordnik
  6. commons, the Commons, the commons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Commons, commons: Wiktionary
  8. commons: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Commons, commons, the Commons: Dictionary.com
  10. commons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Commons (disambiguation), Commons, The Commons (TV series), The commons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Commons: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. commons: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. commons: Rhymezone
  15. Commons: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. commons: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Commons: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. commons: FreeDictionary.org
  19. commons: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Commons, the Commons: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. commons: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Commons: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Commons, the Commons: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commons, the Commons: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commons: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. COMMONS: Acronym Finder
  3. commons: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. commons: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Commons: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (usually singular in construction) A public area, especially a dining hall, at a college or university; a similar shared spaced elsewhere.
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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