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Definition of Everyday

1. Adjective. Found in the ordinary course of events. "There's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"

2. Adjective. Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions. "Everyday clothes"

3. Adjective. Commonplace and ordinary. "The familiar everyday world"

Definition of Everyday

1. a. Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit of clothes.

Definition of Everyday

1. Adjective. appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions ¹

2. Adjective. commonplace, ordinary ¹

3. Adverb. (misspelling of every day) ¹

4. Noun. (qualifier rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Everyday

1. the routine day [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Everyday

every so often every time every time one turns around every trick in the book every week every which way every which where every year everybody everybody's

everybody and his cousin everybody and his mother everybody and their brother everybody and their dog everybuddy everyday (current term) everydayness everydaynesses everydays everydude

everydudes everyguy everyguys everyhow everyman everyman's right everymen everyone everyone and his brother everyone and his mother

Literary usage of Everyday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adult Literacy in America edited by Irwin S. Kisch (1994)
"Relatively small proportions of the adults in the other literacy levels said they receive assistance with everyday prose tasks. Percentages of Adults Who ..."

2. Adult Literacy And New Technologies: Tools For A Lifetime by Office of Technology Assessment (1994)
"LITERACY IN everyday LIFE: ADULTS WITH LOW LITERACY ... Although research on the literacy demands of everyday life is limited, several studies provide ..."

3. Child Training by Angelo Patri (1922)
"THE everyday DOLL Christmas is coming and thousands of little girls will ... I hope they will be everyday dolls. I once knew a little girl who loved dolls. ..."

4. The Essentials of Logic by Roy Wood Sellars (1917)
"Of these, the psychological are of the greatest importance for everyday life. ... Observation in everyday Life and in Science. Because the scientist has ..."

5. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
"Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of ..."

6. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1915)
"Emphasize expression of everyday matters. — In training in expression, the types of writing and speaking in which training is provided should be emphasized ..."

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