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Common

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Etymology

Probably a variant of Cumming or a reduced form of McCommon.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.

    Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.

Forms

plural
Commons
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).