common good

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   the good of a community

   Synonymscommonweal

   Broadergood

Questions about common good

What does common good mean?

common good means "the good of a community".

What is another word for common good?

Close synonyms include commonweal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common good a common word?

common good is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.