Common may refer to:
Places
* Common, a townland in
County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retai ...
, Northern Ireland
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Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
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Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Clapham Common, originally common land, now a park in London, UK
* Common Moss, a townland in
County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retai ...
, Northern Ireland
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Lexington Common, a common land area in Lexington, Massachusetts
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Salem Common Historic District, a common land area in Salem, Massachusetts
People
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Common (rapper) (born 1972), American hip hop artist, actor, and poet
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Andrew Ainslie Common
Andrew Ainslie Common FRS (1841–1903) was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography.
Biography
Common was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 7 August 1841. His father, Thomas Common, a surgeon known for ...
(born 1841), English amateur astronomer
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Andrew Common
Sir Lawrence Andrew Common (31 March 1889 – 6 April 1953) was a British shipping director.England & Wales Deaths Index 1953, June quarter, "Common, Lawrence A.", Northumberland West, volume 1b, page 394 (born 1889), British shipping director
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John Common
John Common is an American songwriter, musician and singer based in Denver, Colorado, United States.
Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Common spent most of his youth in Pensacola, Florida. When he was thirteen years old, Common found h ...
, American songwriter, musician and singer
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Thomas Common (born 1850), Scottish translator and literary critic
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Common'' (film), a 2014 BBC One film, written by Jimmy McGovern, on the UK's Joint Enterprise Law
* Dol Common, a character in
''The Alchemist'' by Ben Jonson
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Harvard Common Press of Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher of cookbooks and parenting books
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The Common Room'', a former interactive TV show on ITV Play
Religion
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Common (liturgy), a part of certain Christian liturgy
* Common, translation of
tum'ah, a biblical term for ritual impurity, used by some common English translations of the bible
Science and technology
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COMMON, the largest association of users of mid-range IBM computers
* COMMON, a
Fortran statement
* Common or
vernacular
A vernacular or vernacular language is in contrast with a "standard language". It refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, n ...
, the layman's but not scientific name of a plant or animal
Other uses
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Common (behavior)
Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. This judgement may refer to language, visual art, social class, or social climbers. John Bayley claims the term can never be self-referential, because to be aware of vulgarity is to d ...
, vulgar behavior or attitude of a common person
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Common (company), an American coliving company founded in 2015
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Common (horse), a British thoroughbred racehorse
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Common Application, an undergraduate college admission application
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Common land
Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.
A person who has ...
or town common, land on which multiple entities share certain traditional rights, such as grazing livestock or collecting firewood
* Common language, also known as
lingua franca, a language shared by speakers of different mother tongues
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Common Room (university) or combination room, organized groups of students and the academic body that provide representation in the organisation of college or dormitory life, to operate certain services within these institutions such as laundry or recreation, and to provide opportunities for socialising
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Common room, shared space in a building
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Common (script)'', name for generic script characters, ISO code
See also
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Common Good (disambiguation)
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Commoner (disambiguation)
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Commons (disambiguation)
Commons is a general term for shared resources, typically used in political economic theory.
Commons may also refer to:
Shared resources
* Common good (disambiguation)
* Common land, shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the Br ...
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The Common (disambiguation) The Common may refer to:
Places
* The Common, Brinkworth, England
* The Common, Broughton Gifford, England
* The Common, Queensland, suburb of Rockhampton, Australia
* The Common, Suffolk, England, in Little Blakenham parish
* The Common, Winte ...
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