Synonyms: park, common, commons, green
Definition: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
Usage: they went for a walk in the park
Similar words: piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel, parcel of land
Definition: an extended area of land
Synonyms: common
Definition: 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
Similar words: ordinary, average
Definition: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
Usage: average people; the ordinary (or common) man in the street
Similar words: popular, democratic
Definition: representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
Usage: democratic art forms; a democratic or popular movement; popular thought; popular science; popular fiction
Similar words: demotic
Definition: of or for the common people
Usage: demotic entertainments; demotic speech; a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms
Similar words: frequent
Definition: frequently encountered
Usage: a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie';
Similar words: general
Definition: prevailing among and common to the general public
Usage: the general discontent
Similar words: grassroots
Definition: of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
Usage: a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament
Similar words: standard
Definition: commonly used or supplied
Usage: standard procedure; standard car equipment
Synonyms: common
Definition: 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
Similar words: communal
Definition: for or by a group rather than individuals
Usage: dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew- Paul Roche; a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared; a group effort
Similar words: public
Definition: affecting the people or community as a whole
Usage: community leaders; community interests; the public welfare
Definition: commonly encountered
Usage: a common (or familiar) complaint; the usual greeting
Similar words: familiar
Definition: within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
Usage: familiar ordinary objects found in every home; a familiar everyday scene; a familiar excuse; a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences
Synonyms: common, vernacular, vulgar
Definition: 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
Similar words: informal
Definition: used of spoken and written language
Synonyms: plebeian, vulgar, unwashed, common
Definition: 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
Similar words: lowborn
Definition: of humble birth or origins
Usage: a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor
Synonyms: common
Definition: to be expected; standard
Usage: common decency
Similar words: ordinary
Definition: not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
Usage: ordinary everyday objects; ordinary decency; an ordinary day; an ordinary wine
Synonyms: coarse, common, vulgar, uncouth, rough-cut
Definition: 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
Similar words: unrefined
Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth
Usage: how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?
Definition: common to or shared by two or more parties
Usage: a common friend; the mutual interests of management and labor
Similar words: shared
Definition: have in common; held or experienced in common
Usage: two shared valence electrons forming a bond between adjacent nuclei; a shared interest in philately
Definition: 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
Similar words: inferior
Definition: of low or inferior quality