Word.ws English Dictionary

common names

common names is the plural of common name.

Meaning of common name

Noun

common name (plural common names)

  1. The name by which an organism or group of organisms is known to the general public.
    • Near-synonym: trivial name
  2. A name that unambiguously identifies a substance but is not the IUPAC systematic name.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, name.

Questions about common names

What is common names the plural of?
Common names is the plural of common name.

Words near common names in the dictionary

  1. common mussels
  2. common myrrh
  3. common nail
  4. common nails
  5. common name
  6. common names
  7. common nightingale
  8. common nightingales
  9. common noctule
  10. common noctules
  11. common noun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: common names (page history and authors); common name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “common names.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/common_names. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.