Usually means: Most frequently occurring or prevalent.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word commonest:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. commonest: Merriam-Webster
  2. commonest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commonest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. commonest: Vocabulary.com
  5. Commonest, commonest: Wordnik
  6. commonest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. commonest: Wiktionary
  8. Commonest, commonest: Dictionary.com
  9. commonest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. commonest: FreeDictionary.org
  11. commonest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. commonest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. commonest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commonest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. commonest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. commonest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commonest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Common)

adjective:  Mutual; shared by more than one.
adjective:  Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
adjective:  Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
adjective:  Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
adjective:  Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
adjective:  (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
adjective:  (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
adjective:  (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
adjective:  (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
adjective:  (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
adjective:  (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
noun:  Mutual good, shared by more than one.
noun:  A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
noun:  The people; the community.
noun:  (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
verb:  (obsolete) To communicate (something).
verb:  (obsolete) To converse, talk.
verb:  (obsolete) To have sex.
verb:  (obsolete) To participate.
verb:  (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
verb:  (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.
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