commonplace

Meanings

Adjective

• Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.

Noun

• A platitude or cliché.
• Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
• A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
• A commonplace book.

Verb

• To make a commonplace book.
• To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
• To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Origin

• A , referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος.