ALL meanings of common noun
com·mon noun
C c - countable noun common noun A common noun is a noun such as 'tree', 'water', or 'beauty' that is not the name of one particular person or thing. Compare proper noun. 3
- noun common noun a noun that refers to each member of a whole class sharing the features connoted by the noun, as for example planet, orange, and drum 3
- noun common noun generic name 1
- noun common noun a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music. 1
- noun common noun A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as "dog" or "city". 0