"common ground" meaning in English

See common ground in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-au-common ground.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} common ground (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable Related terms: make common cause Translations (commonly held beliefs or interests): ortaq mövqe (Azerbaijani), ortaq məxrəc (Azerbaijani), yhteinen pohja (Finnish), terrain d’entente [masculine] (French), płaszczyzna porozumienia [feminine] (Polish), etendimento comum [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-common_ground-en-noun-AytpuE7f Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for common ground meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "common ground (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common."
      ],
      "id": "en-common_ground-en-noun-AytpuE7f",
      "links": [
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "in common",
          "in common"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "make common cause"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "word": "ortaq mövqe"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "word": "ortaq məxrəc"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "word": "yhteinen pohja"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "terrain d’entente"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "płaszczyzna porozumienia"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "etendimento comum"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-common ground.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/En-au-common_ground.ogg/En-au-common_ground.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/En-au-common_ground.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "common ground"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "common ground (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "make common cause"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "in common",
          "in common"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-common ground.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/En-au-common_ground.ogg/En-au-common_ground.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/En-au-common_ground.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "word": "ortaq mövqe"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "word": "ortaq məxrəc"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "word": "yhteinen pohja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "terrain d’entente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "płaszczyzna porozumienia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "commonly held beliefs or interests",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "etendimento comum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "common ground"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.