Same and Common

noun

• A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Saame
• The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Saame

adjective

• Same in identity.
  • usage: "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
• Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree.
  • usage: "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"
• Equal in amount or value.
  • usage: "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number"
  • synonyms: like
• Unchanged in character or nature.
  • usage: "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"

• (v.i.) Just mentioned or just about to be mentioned.
• (v.i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
• (v.i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

noun

• A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.
  • usage: "they went for a walk in the park"
  • synonyms: park, commons, green

adjective

• Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public.
  • usage: "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
• Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.
  • usage: "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"
• Common to or shared by two or more parties.
  • usage: "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
  • synonyms: mutual
• Commonly encountered.
  • usage: "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
  • synonyms: usual
• Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.
  • usage: "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
  • synonyms: vernacular, vulgar
• Of or associated with the great masses of people.
  • usage: "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
  • synonyms: plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
• Of low or inferior quality or value.
  • usage: "of what coarse metal ye are molded- Shakespeare; "produced... The common cloths used by the poorer population"
  • synonyms: coarse
• Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.
  • usage: "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier-a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
  • synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
• To be expected; standard.
  • usage: "common decency"

• (v.i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
• (v.) Belonging or relating equally or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
• (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
• (n.) The people; the community.
• (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
• (v.i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
• (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
• (v.) Profane; polluted.
• (v.i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
• (v.i.) To participate.
• (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.