commonplace

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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."”

2. isim A platitude or cliché.

   “Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.”

3. isim 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. isim 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. isim A commonplace book.
6. fiil To make a commonplace book.
7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

   “And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.”