3. Usual, frequent, habitual, customary, everyday, often met with.
    4. Trite, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, common-place, worn out.
    5. Ordinary, indifferent, inferior, vulgar, low, undistinguished (by high birth, attainments or character).

Commonalty, n. The common people (below the orders of nobility), the lower classes, commoners, the commons.

Commoner, n.

    1. One of the commons, or common-people, untitled person.
    2. Student not on a foundation, gentleman-commoner (Oxford), pensioner (Cambridge).

Common-law, n. Unwritten law.

Commonplace, a. Trite, stale, hackneyed, ordinary, common, threadbare, not new, worn out.

Common run.

    1. Common or ordinary course,
    2. Generality, mass, ordinary class.

Commons, n. pl.

    1. Commonalty, the common people, untitled class, commoners.
    2. Lower house of Parliament, House of Commons.
    3. Common-table meals served in common (esp. at colleges).
    4. Provisions, food, fare.

Common-sense, n.

    1. Natural sagacity, good sense, sound sense or understanding, plain sense, good judgment, practical discernment.
    2. Ordinary sense, ordinary judgment, common view of things, usual way of looking at things.

  By PanEris using Melati.

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