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commonplaced

commonplaced is the simple past and past participle of commonplace.

Meaning of commonplace

Verb

commonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)

  1. (transitive) To make a commonplace book.
  2. (transitive) 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.1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour

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Questions about commonplaced

What is commonplaced the simple past and past participle of?
Commonplaced is the simple past and past participle of commonplace.

Words near commonplaced in the dictionary

  1. commonplace
  2. commonplace book
  3. commonplace books
  4. commonplace-book
  5. commonplace-books
  6. commonplaced
  7. commonplaceism
  8. commonplaceisms
  9. commonplacely
  10. commonplaceness
  11. commonplacer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commonplaced (page history and authors); commonplace (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.

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