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common ground en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
    • The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.
    • You'll say, we've got nothing in common No common ground to start from And we're falling apart 1993 October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Home, performed by Deep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:
    • On Monday, he tasked his third prime minister in 12 months, Sébastien Lecornu, to try again to find common ground between political parties dead set against doing so. 2025 October 11, Sylvie Kaufmann, “How domestic deadlock brought Macron back to earth”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
  2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, ground; especially, common land.

Relateds

the commons · common · commonplace · res communis · well-grounded · common good · make common cause

Translations (19)

it terreno d'intesa (commonly held beliefs or interests) · az ortaq mövqe (commonly held beliefs or interests) · fi yhteinen pohja (commonly held beliefs or interests) · he מכנה משותף (commonly held beliefs or interests) · ca terreny comú (commonly held beliefs or interests) · pt etendimento comum (commonly held beliefs or interests) · ro teren comun (commonly held beliefs or interests) · az ortaq məxrəc (commonly held beliefs or interests) · es terreno común (commonly held beliefs or interests) · es comunalía (commonly held beliefs or interests) · pt terreno comum (commonly held beliefs or interests) · it terreno comune (commonly held beliefs or interests) · fr terrain d’entente (commonly held beliefs or interests) · es comunaleza (commonly held beliefs or interests) · fr points communs (commonly held beliefs or interests) · es puntos en común (commonly held beliefs or interests) · pl płaszczyzna porozumienia (commonly held beliefs or interests) · it punto d'incontro (commonly held beliefs or interests) · ro numitor comun (commonly held beliefs or interests)