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Commonplace
Definitions
- 1 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.""
- 1 not challenging; dull and lacking excitement wordnet
- 2 completely ordinary and unremarkable wordnet
- 3 repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse wordnet
- 1 A platitude or cliché.
"Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly."
- 2 a trite or obvious remark wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 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."
- 5 A commonplace book.
- 1 To make a commonplace book.
- 2 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."
- 3 To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. obsolete
"And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness."
Etymology
A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
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