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eve·ry·day  (vr-d)
adj.
1. Appropriate for ordinary days or routine occasions: a suit for everyday wear.
2. Commonplace; ordinary: everyday worries.
n.
The ordinary or routine day or occasion: "It was not an isolated, violent episode. It had become part of the everyday" Sherry Turkle.

every·dayness n.

everyday
Adjective
1. commonplace or usual
2. happening each day
3. suitable for or used on ordinary days
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.everydayeveryday - found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
2.everyday - appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
informal - not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
3.everyday - commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"
familiar - within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

everyday
adjective 1. daily, day-to-day, diurnal, quotidian << OPPOSITE occasional
adjective 2. ordinary, common, usual, familiar, conventional, routine, dull, stock, accustomed, customary, commonplace, mundane, vanilla (slang) banal, habitual, run-of-the-mill, unimaginative, workaday, unexceptional, bog-standard Brit., Irish (slang) common or garden (informal) dime-a-dozen (informal) wonted << OPPOSITE unusual
Translations
Spanish everyday [ˈɛvrɪdeɪ] adj (= daily) [use, occurrence, experience] → diario, cotidiano (= usual) [expression] → corriente (= common); vulgar (= routine); rutinario
French everyday [ˈɛvrɪdeɪ] every adj [expression] → courant(e)d'usage courant; [use] → courant; [clothes, life] → de tous les jours; [occurrence, problem] → quotidien(ne)
German everyday [ˈɛvrɪdeɪ] adjtäglich;
(usual, common) → alltäglich;
(life, language) → Alltags-

Italian everyday [ˈɛvrɪdeɪ] adjquotidiano/a; di ogni giorno; [use, occurrence, experience] → comune; [expression] → di uso corrente

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Cathy is a sufficiently good little scholar, for her nine years; her mother taught her Spanish herself, and kept it always fresh upon her ear and her tongue by hardly ever speaking with her in any other tongue; her father was her English teacher, and talked with her in that language almost exclusively; French has been her everyday speech for more than seven years among her playmates here; she has a good working use of governess - German and Italian.
An earthly virtue is it which I love: little prudence is therein, and the least everyday wisdom.
Exciting the crowd would have been to untravelled humans of civilization, and exciting it was to Jerry; although to Tom Haggin and Captain Van Horn it was a mere commonplace of everyday life.
 
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