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/kˈɑmənplˌeɪs bʊk/ Listen

noun

Commonplace n.

An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. "Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace."

Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

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Etymology of 'Commonplace book'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Commonplace book" Quotes from Famous Books

... time to make plans, and to put them down in your Garden-book. Have you a Garden-book? A note-book, I mean, devoted to garden memoranda. It is a very useful kind of commonplace book, and soon becomes as fascinating as ...

— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... book [Footnote: A commonplace book with a few written sketches of people in it.] which you entrusted to me: I was very much interested by it. The sketch of Gladstone is excellent. Pray write some more of it some time: I understand him better after ...

— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... discernment is in perfect order. The advantage of this is that he is enabled to make use of Don Quixote as a mouthpiece for his own reflections, and so, without seeming to digress, allow himself the relief of digression when he requires it, as freely as in a commonplace book. ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra