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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area, a common.
  • A dining hall, usually at a college or university.
  • figurative The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.
  • common

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Proper noun:

  • politics The House of Commons, part of the parliament of the United Kingdom.
  • politics The House of Commons, part of the parliament of Canada.
  • politics The House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminister system of parliamentary democracy.
  • wjargon The Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files, which may be used in other projects on the Wikimedia servers, including the various languages' Wiktionary, Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikinews sites.

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