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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

commonplace
    adj 1: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now
           become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
    2: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous
       job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum,
       prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
    3: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
       sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
       "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare
       jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor
       `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed,
       old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
       tired, trite, well-worn]
    n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche,
         banality, commonplace, bromide]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
   Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
   observation.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
   1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
      trite or customary remark; a platitude.
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   2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
      referred to.
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            Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
            fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
            way of commonplace.                   --Swift.
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   Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of
      things to be remembered.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
   To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
   heads. --Felton.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
   To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
   --Bacon.
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