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commonplace

UK /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/US /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/

noun 4
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5

noun4

•
Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
- It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them. — 1834
•
A platitude or cliché.
- Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly. — 1899
A commonplace book.
•
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
- Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place. — 1710

verb3

To make a commonplace book.
•
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
- I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians. — 1711
•
(no longer used) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
- c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.

adjective1

•
Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
- "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man." — 1824

forms

commonplaced · commonplacing · commonplaces · more commonplace · most commonplace

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