everyday
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
everyday (not comparable)
- Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
- When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
- Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.
- 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
- (rare) Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
- Coordinate term: everynight
- 1931, Jack While, Fifty Years of Fire Fighting in London, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., page 18:
- This was an everyday and everynight scene a couple of decades ago.
- 1992, Patricia Connelly, Pat Armstrong, editors, Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
- It calls for methods of thinking, of writing texts, and of investigation that expand and extend our knowledge of how our everyday/everynight worlds are put together, determined and shaped as they are by forces and powers beyond our practical and direct knowledge.
- 1997, Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz, “Rebellions of Everynight Life”, in Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz, editors, Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
- The locus of emancipatory hopes shifts from everyday to everynight life.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
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commonplace, ordinary
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Adverb
everyday
- Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
Usage notes
When describing the frequency of an action denoted by a verb, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour, every day, every week, etc.
- Influenza is considered an everyday virus because it infects people every day.
Noun
everyday (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
- (rare) The ordinary or routine day or occasion.
- Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.
- 2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press), UPNE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
- Then you came in. I heard your rumbling voice
Out in the kitchen , and I don't know why ,
But I went near to see with my own eyes .
You could sit there with the stains on your shoes
Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave
And talk about your everyday concerns. […]
Translations
References
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Everyday”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 345, column 1.
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