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common run

common run noun: ordinary persons, things, or events.

Noun

common run

  1. (dated, idiomatic) Ordinary persons, things, or events.
    • I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.September 4, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
    • Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns

Questions about common run

What does common run mean?
Common run means ordinary persons, things, or events.
What part of speech is common run?
Common run is a noun.

Words near common run in the dictionary

  1. common rose
  2. common rosefinch
  3. common rosefinches
  4. common roses
  5. common rue
  6. common run
  7. common rush
  8. common rushes
  9. common salt
  10. common sandpiper
  11. common sandpipers

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