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everyday

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See also:every dayandevery-day

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englisheveridayes,every daies,every dayes(everyday, daily, continual, constant,adjective, literallyevery day's), equivalent toevery +‎day.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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everyday (notcomparable)

  1. Appropriate forordinary use, rather than forspecialoccasions.
  2. Commonplace,ordinary.
    • 2010, Malcolm Knox,The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
      Although it is aneveryday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.
  3. (rare)Commonplace orordinary duringdaytime.
    Coordinate term:everynight
    • 1931, Jack While,Fifty Years of Fire Fighting in London, London:Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., page18:
      This was aneveryday 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, pages16–17:
      It calls for methods of thinking, of writing texts, and of investigation that expand and extend our knowledge of how oureveryday/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, page20:
      The locus of emancipatory hopes shifts fromeveryday to everynight life.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
commonplace, ordinary

Adverb

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everyday

  1. Misspelling ofevery day (compareeverywhere,everyway, etc.).

Usage notes

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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 aneveryday virus because it infects peopleevery day.

Noun

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everyday (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.[14th–19th c.]
  2. (rare) The ordinary orroutineday or occasion.
    Putting away the tableware foreveryday, a chore which is part of theeveryday.
    • 2003, Robert Pack,Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press)‎[1], UPNE,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page110:
      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 youreveryday concerns.[]

Translations

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ordinary or routine day or occasion

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