Common - 1. Belonging equally to, or shared by, two or more or by all; 2. Belonging to or related to the community at large.
From: Webster’s New World Dictionary, 3rd College Edition
A commons is:
Any resource that, to be managed on in some cases even exist, can only be held in common. Language itself is perhaps the original and purest commons.
A CoHousing community in Santa Fe. The place I call home. LB