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COMMON GOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common good mean?
• COMMON GOOD (noun)
The noun COMMON GOOD has 1 sense:
1. the good of a community
Familiarity information: COMMON GOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The good of a community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
common good; commonweal
Hypernyms ("common good" is a kind of...):
good (benefit)
Context examples
Not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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