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Vinony

everyday

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/

adj

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

  1. 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.”

  2. Commonplace, ordinary.

    “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.[…]”

    “Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.”

  3. Present or recurring every day.

    “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.”

    ““What kind of place do you live in! Every time we turn around, somebody else is getting killed!” / “Believe me, it’s not an everyday occurrence.” An everyweek occurrence lately, however.”

  4. Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.

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

    “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.”

adv

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

  1. Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).

noun

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

  1. Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.
  2. The ordinary or routine day or occasion.

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