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Everyday

//ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ// adj, adv, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions. not-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Commonplace, ordinary. not-comparable

    "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.[…]"

  3. 3
    Present or recurring every day. literally, not-comparable

    "For Everyday Recording / For example: Programme time for timer recording every day from 20:00–22:45 on timer programme number 7. Programming for everyday recording can be made on any of the timer programme numbers 1–7. […] For Everyweek Recording / For Example: Programming a timer recording for a TV programme that is broadcast every week on Sunday, from 20:00 to 22:45."

  4. 4
    Commonplace or ordinary during daytime. not-comparable, rare

    "This was an everyday and everynight scene a couple of decades ago."

Adjective
  1. 1
    commonplace and ordinary wordnet
  2. 2
    appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions wordnet
  3. 3
    found in the ordinary course of events wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.). alt-of, misspelling
Noun
  1. 1
    Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    The ordinary or routine day or occasion. rare, uncountable

    "Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.

Etymology 2

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.

Etymology 3

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.

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