common

/ˈkɒmən/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈkɒmən/

common

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

com - mon -> common

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အများနှင့်ဆိုင် (n) ကွင်းပြင်

Full entry

common /'kɒmǝn/ adj (-er , -est )

၁။ တွေ့နေကျ၊ ဖြစ်နေကျ စသည်။ သာမန်။
a common flower/sight/occurrence ❍ Doctors are still trying to find a cure for the common cold. ❍ Is this word in common use? (ie Is it commonly used?) ❍ Smith is a common English surname. ❍ Robbery is not common in this area. ❍ Car thefts are becoming increasingly common. Compare UNCOMMON
၂။ ~ (to sb/sth) အများနှင့်ဆိုင်သော။ ဘုံ။ common property/ownership ❍ We share a common purpose. ❍ He and I have a common interest: we both collect stamps. ❍ He is French and she is German, but they have English as a common language (ie they can both speak English). ❍ measures taken for the common good (ie for the benefit of everyone) ❍ A fruity quality is common to all wine made from this grape.
၃။ သာမန်။
He's not an officer, but a common soldier. ❍ the common people (ie the average citizens of a country) ❍ He's nothing less than a common criminal.
၄။ (derog ) အဆင့်အတန်းမရှိသော။ အောက်တန်းကျသော။
She's so common, shouting like that so all the neighbours can hear!
၅။ (mathematics ) ဘုံ(ကိန်း)။ a common factor/multiple. See also COMMON DENOMINATOR
n (ရွာပိုင်) ကွင်းပြင်။ လွင်။ cows grazing on the common ❍ go for a walk on the common. Compare COMMON LAND
❏ common decency n [U] လောကဝတ်။ You'd think he'd have the common decency to apologize for what he said.
❏ common denominator n
၁။ (mathematics ) ဘုံပိုင်းခြေ။
၂။ အများလက်ခံသည့်အယူအဆ၊ သဘောထား။ have difficulty finding a common denominator between them in terms of style. See also LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
❏ common ground n [U] အခြေခံတူညီမှု။
The two rival parties have no common ground between them.
❏ common land n [U] ဘုံလယ်ယာ။ Compare COMMON n
❏ common law n [U] (အင်္ဂလိပ်) ရှေးထုံးတမ်းဥပဒေ၊ ဖြတ် ထုံး။ Compare CASE-LAW, STATUTE LAW
❏ common-law wife, common-law husband ns ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းအရ လင်မယားအရာမြောက်သူ။ ပုဆိုးတန်းတင် လင်မယား။
❏ commonly adv
၁။ အများအားဖြင့်။ It's a commonly held opinion. ❍ Thomas, commonly known as Tom. ❍ The disease is less rare than commonly supposed.
၂။ (derog ) အောက်တန်းကျကျ။
❏ the Common Market n [sing] = THE EUROPEAN UNION
❏ common noun n (grammar ) အများဆိုင်နာမ်။ (eg book, dog, house or knife).
❏ common or garden [IDM ] သာမန်။ ရိုးရိုး။
It isn't a rare bird, just a common or garden sparrow.
❏ common-room n (Brit ) (ဆရာ၊ ကျောင်းသားများ) နားနေခန်း။ the sixth-form common-room.
❏ common sense n [U] ဘဝပေးအသိ။ သာမန်အသိ။ လူပြိန်းသိ။ It's common sense to keep medicines away from children. ❍ I like her common-sense approach to everyday problems.
❏ the common touch [IDM ] အများပြည်သူနှင့် ဝင်ဆံ့ခြင်း။ A politician needs the common touch.
❏ have sth in common (with sb/sth) [IDM ] ဝါသနာ၊ စရိုက် စသည်ချင်း တူညီသည်။ အခြေခံသဘောထားချင်း တူညီ သည်။ Jane and I have nothing in common. ❍ I have nothing in common with Jane.
❏ in common [IDM ] အများပိုင်။ ဘုံပိုင်။ land owned in common by the residents.
❏ in common with sb/sth [IDM ] အများလိုပဲ ။ သူလို ကိုယ်လိုပဲ။ In common with many others, she is finding it hard to get a job.
❏ make common cause (with sb) [IDM ] (fml ) အကျိုး တူပူးပေါင်းသည်။ The rebel factions made common cause (with each other) to overthrow the regime.

More examples

Mergers and takeovers have become increasingly common in recent years.
The most common criticism was that he was always late.
Today smog is a common occurrence in many major cities.
[it is common for to do something] : It was common for children to play in the street.
Member states also agreed to pursue a common trade policy.
A group of people descended from a common ancestor
[common language] : She was Swiss and I am from Vietnam, so French was our common language.
[common to] : These issues are common to all our clients.
A common soldier/criminal
[the common man] : This is true both for the philosopher and the common man.
[the common people] : In the fifteenth century the common people could neither read nor write.
[common courtesy] : It would only be common courtesy to return their hospitality.
[common decency] : Why didn’t you have the common decency to inform your uncle of where you were going?
He’s such a common little man.

Synonyms

ordinary, widespread, frequent, general, universal, familiar, regular, accepted, average, banal, baseborn, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, characterless, cheap, coarse, coincident, collective, colloquial, colorless, comformable, commonplace, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, conventional, corporate, correspondent, crass, current, customary, daily, declassÃ©, dÃ©classÃ©, everyday, for all, generic, green, habitual, hack, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, ill-mannered, impure, in common, inferior, informal, intermutual, joint, like, low, low-class, low-grade, mean, mediocre, middling, monotonous, mutual, natural, nondescript, normal, nothing special, open space, park, passable, pedestrian, philistine, plain, playground, playing field, plebeian, poor, popular, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, prosy, public, raffish, reciprocal, recreation ground, recreational area, rough, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-class, second-rate, shared, shoddy, simple, sleazy, social, socialistic, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, unexceptional, united, unrefined, unvaried, usual, vulgar, wearisome, well-known, workaday, worn-out

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