COMMONPLACES

Noun

commonplaces

plural of commonplace

Source: Wiktionary


COMMONPLACE

Com"mon*place`, a.

Definition: Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

Com"mon*place`, n.

1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

2. 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 commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

Com"mon*place`, v. t.

Definition: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

Com"mon*place`, v. i.

Definition: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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