Definition of "commonest" [commonest]

• Superlative form of common: most common. (adjective)

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• "There were hours when she spoke of their taking refuge in what she called the commonest tact -- as if this principle alone would suffice to light their way; there were others when it might have seemed, to listen to her, that their course would demand of them the most anxious study and the most independent, not to say original, interpretation of signs."
• "The commonest is that it derives from the Norwegian rørhval and means ‘grooved whale’ – a reference to those longitudinal grooves."
• "Of all the ornamental aquatic fowls known in England, the swan, though perhaps the commonest, is the noblest; and it has the advantage of being useful in clearing ponds of weeds as well as being ornamental."