common Signification, définition

Signification de common en français

• 0 seen, done, or used frequently -- courant/-ante

  • a common problem un problème courant

  • It’s common for students to lose sleep during exams. Il est fréquent que les étudiants manquent de sommeil en période d’examens.

  • a disease common among older men une maladie fréquente chez les hommes âgés

• 1 shared by people or things -- commun/-une

  • a common goal un objectif commun

  • characteristics common to both species of plant des caractéristiques communes aux deux espèces de plante

  • to try to find common ground essayer de trouver un terrain d’entente

  • It’s common knowledge that they hate each other. Chacun sait qu’ils se haïssent.

• 2 not special at all -- simple

  • a common criminal un criminel de droit commun

  • common courtesy/decency simple courtoisie/décence

• 3 an area of open public land in a town or city -- terrain [ masculine ] communal

  • walking on Boston Common se promenant sur le terrain communal de Boston

• 4 [ singular ] a place for students to gather, eat, etc. on a college campus -- réfectoire [ masculine ]

• 5 to share the same belief or characteristic -- avoir qqch en commun

  • I don’t have a lot in common with my brother. Je n’ai pas grand-chose en commun avec mon frère.

  • a trait that the two cultures have in common un trait que ces deux cultures ont en commun

• 6 seen or happening often; quite normal or usual -- courant, banal

  • a common occurrence

  • These birds are not so common nowadays.

• 7 belonging equally to, or shared by, more than one -- commun

  • This knowledge is common to all of us

  • We share a common language.

• 8 publicly owned -- public

  • common property.

• 9 coarse or impolite -- vulgaire

  • She uses some very common expressions.

• 10 of ordinary, not high, social rank -- du commun

  • the common people.

• 11 of a noun, not beginning with a capital letter (except at the beginning of a sentence), for example ’house’ in the sentence ’The house is empty’. -- commun

• 12 (a piece of) public land for everyone to use, with few or no buildings -- terrain communal

  • the village common.