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Definition: Everyday |
EverydayAdjective1. Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant. 2. Suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes". 3. Commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "everyday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: EverydaySynonyms: casual (adj), mundane (adj), quotidian (adj), routine (adj), unremarkable (adj), workaday (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Conventional; (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday. |
Frequency | Common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar. |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Everyday |
| English words defined with "everyday": casual, catch a wink, catnap, common, commonplace, Courbet ♦ familiar ♦ genre painting, Gustave Courbet ♦ homelike, homely, homey, homy ♦ literary ♦ mundane ♦ nap, Norman Rockwell ♦ ordinary ♦ quotidian ♦ Rockwell, Romance, routine ♦ scene, situation comedy ♦ unfunctional, unremarkable ♦ vernacular, view, vulgar ♦ wear, wearing, workaday, Working-day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "everyday": bread and butter issue ♦ caught up in trivia/to get, Cyc ♦ dogfood ♦ Mentally Disabled Persons, microLenat ♦ remote sensing ♦ Shrew ♦ TEACHER, RESOURCE. (references) |
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Screenplays | Tired of this war, tired of fighting I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a life-age of the earth (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) A sense of the miraculous in everyday life (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) I've been on a diet everyday since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) Great. Now say that everyday you had an apple (Election; writing credit: Alexander Payne) | |
Lyrics | Gonna live my life everyday (Everyday; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Can’t get enough of this everyday love (This Everyday Love; performing artist: Rascal Flatts) I don't wanna be a worker everyday (We Live; performing artist: Bosson) But it feels alright everyday and every night ((You Drive Me) Crazy - Stop Remix; performing artist: Britney Spears) I'm the warheart, I'm dying to win the battle I live everyday (Warheart; performing artist: Children) | |
Clever | Show a little bit of your anger everyday instead of showing a lot of it on one day. (references; author: unknown) Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. (references; author: unknown) What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide? A fart. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Everyday Courtesy (1948) Scenes from Everyday Life (1995) Everyday Heroes (1990) Memoirs of an Everyday War (1986) | |
Song Titles | Everyday Of The Week (performing artist: Jade) This Everyday Love (performing artist: Rascal Flatts) Everyday Is A Winding Road (performing artist: Sheryl Crow) Everyday People (performing artist: Sly and the Family Stone) EVERYDAY I HAVE TO CRY (performing artist: Steve Alaimo ) | |
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![]() | Giving herself insulin injections is part of everyday life ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen.. | ![]() | Finally, the ordered [i.e. order] as restablished [i.e. reestablished] to that rebelious [sic] regin [i.e. region], and everyday life began again / Ardeshir Mohassess. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Linda Darnell in her dressing room, wearing everyday cotton mesh stockings as a part of her rehearsal costume. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Old barn, cow and buggy, near Lafayette, Louisiana. This buggy is in everyday use, and it is not unusual to see several buggies on the streets in town. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Everyday from twenty to thirty cars moving out from the Dakotas pass the Montana Highway Department's port of entry. Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Everyday 69 people are killed with guns : 63 are killed with handguns, 6 are killed with rifles and shotguns. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Everyday objects 3" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Cell phone on red . 2003-10-25." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Giacomo Leopardi | No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. |
Henri Lefebvre | In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love. |
Horace | Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. |
James A. Froude | In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. |
Mikhail A. Bakunin | To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover everyday anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. |
Red Auerbach | Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. |
Vinton Cerf | A visit to cyberspace is like a visit to the collective consciousness of the world. Alice's journey seems tame by comparison. Our hopes, our dreams, our monumental accomplishments, our frailties, and the everyday business of life is all there to be shared. |
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Health | However, loud noise does not have to be an everyday happening to cause damage. (references) | |
You can quickly return to many everyday activities, but your vision may be blurry. (references) | ||
Excessively loud everyday noises, both at home and at work, can pose a risk to a person's hearing. (references) | ||
Business | Apart from contents, electronic book player itself weighed as much as 800g, too heavy for everyday carrying. (references) | |
Everyday, an estimated 1.4 million cubic meters of wastewater is dumped in the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s main water source. (references) | ||
Trademark infringement and counterfeiting are everyday facts of life, which remain to challenge brand holders and trademark owners in Russia. (references) | ||
Children | Austria | A 1997 amendment to the law explicitly requires the State to provide for equal rights for the disabled "in all areas of everyday life." The law requires all private enterprises and state and federal government offices to employ one person with disabilities for every 25 to 40 employees, depending on the type of work. (references) |
Economic History | Haiti | Poultry is also an important part in the everyday Haitian meal. (references) |
Pakistan | Many consumer retail stores stock general merchandise for everyday use. (references) | |
Minorities | Czech Republic | Roma also face discrimination in housing and other areas of everyday life. (references) |
Turkmenistan | While Russian remained common in commerce and everyday life, during the year, the Government has intensified its campaign to conduct official business solely in Turkmen. (references) | |
Political Economy | Austria | The FPO has attracted protest voters who no longer desire association with the other two major parties that have penetrated many aspects of everyday life in Austria. (references) |
Travel | Portugal | In terms of everyday business the Portuguese are correct and civil. (references) |
Mauritius | The official language is English but French and Creole are used in everyday life. (references) | |
Women | Uzbekistan | Although the law prohibits discrimination against women, traditional, cultural, and religious practices limit their role in everyday society. (references) |
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David Berkowitz | I don't know. I don't know. I pray everyday for those that lost loved ones. And I pray that God would touch their lives and allow them to heal as much as possible. |
Martha Stewart | So how can we help you spend more time with your children, not waste time doing silly things, or things that are everyday things that you have to do, but we could help you do them much faster. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Yet where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not less. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Everyday" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Everyday" is used about 2,122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,122 | 4,104 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "everyday": dressed in everyday clothes ♦ everyday clothes ♦ everyday events ♦ everyday food ♦ everyday life ♦ for everyday wear ♦ in everyday life. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "everyday": everyday-the. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "everyday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | për ditë jave, i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, ferial, homely, mundane, ordinary, quotidian), i ditëpërditshëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | يوميا (common place, daily, once a day), كل يوم (daily), مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out). (various references) | |
Breton | bemdez. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разговорен (colloquial, conversational), всекидневен (commonplace, daily, day to day, informal, knockabout, workaday), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), ежедневен (daily, diurnal, quotidian), банален (banal, commonplace, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trite, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), делничен (ferial, pedestrian, unromantic, weekday, workaday). (various references) | |
Chinese | 每天 (every day). (various references) | |
Czech | všední (commonplace, corny, flat, ordinary, shallow, trite, trivial), tuctový (homely), prozaický (down to earth, prosaic, prosy, unimaginative), každodenní (casual, daily, diurnal, quotidian, weekly, workaday). (various references) | |
Danish | vulgær (common, vulgar). (various references) | |
Dutch | vulgair (vulgar), ordinair (common, vulgar), grof (coarse, crude, raw, rough). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vulgara (common, vulgar). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vanligur (common, ordinary, usual, vulgar), óvandaligur (common, vulgar). (various references) | |
Finnish | arkipäiväinen (commonplace, humdrum), arkinen (commonplace), arki (week-day). (various references) | |
French | vulgaire, tous les jours, quotidien, de tous les jours, courant. (various references) | |
German | täglich (daily, diurnal, quotidian), alltäglich (ordinary, daily, humdrum, trivial). (various references) | |
Greek | κάθε μέρα, καθημερινόσ (daily, workaday), καθ' έκαστην. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יום יומי (daily, ordinary, routine, workaday), שגרתי (conventional, customary, hackneyed, routine, stock, trite). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mindennapi (quotidian). (various references) | |
Indonesian | setiap hari. (various references) | |
Italian | volgare (common, vulgar), usuale (usual, accustomed, customary, wonted), quotidiano (daily, quotidian), ogni giorno (daily), giornaliero (daily), comune (common, commune, joint). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 日常 (ordinary, regular, usual), 日常 (ordinary, regular, usual), 年中 (always, whole year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねんじゅう (always, whole year), にちじょう (ordinary, regular, usual). (various references) | |
Korean | 매일 (Daily). (various references) | |
Manx | laaoil (daily, diurnal, workaday). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hverdagslig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | everydayay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vulgar (common, commonplace, trite, vulgar), diário (daily, journal). (various references) | |
Romanian | zilnic (daily), de fiecare zi (diurnal, workaday), cotidian (daily, diurnal, everyday's, ordinary), comun (banal, base, common, communal, current, frequent, general, joint, low, mediocre, mutual, ordinary, rife, universal, usual, vulgar), banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, mediocre, puerile, small, threadbare, trite, trivial, unimaginative). (various references) | |
Russian | каждодневный (daily), обычный (consuetudinary, habitual, ordinary), обиходный, житейский (worldly), ежедневный (quotidian), повседневный (workaday). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svakodnevni (daily, day to day, mundane, ordinary, quotidian), svakidašnji (prosaic, vernacular, workaday). (various references) | |
Spanish | todos los días, prosaico (earthbound, matter of fact, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy, workaday), diario (daily, diary, newspaper), de cada tiempo, de cada temporada, de cada día (daily, workaday). (various references) | |
Swedish | vardags, alldaglig (commonplace, workaday). (various references) | |
Turkish | vasat (fair, fair average, indifferent, mediocre, par, undistinguished), orta halli (middle class, middling, tolerable, undistinguished), olağan (common, commonplace, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, of every day, per diem, quotidian, ready, routine, usual), her gün (daily), günlük (casually, daily, day to day, daybook, diary, diurnal, frankincense, fresh, journal, of every day, per diem, quotidian, workaday), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, leisure, per diem, quotidian, ready, workaday), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), adí (common, ordinary, usual, vulgar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щоденний (daily, diurnal, quotidian, service), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), буденний (prosy, workaday), повсякденний (bread and butter, daily, day to day, for everyday wear, workaday). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xảy ra hằng ngày tầm thường, thông thường (common, commonly, customary, normal, normally, ordinary, regulation, usual, vulgar, wonted), hằng ngày (day-to-day), dùng hằng ngày thường. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cotidiano, cotidianum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "everyday": everydayness, everydaynesses. (additional references) | |
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"Everyday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: everday. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-r-v-y-y" | |
-2 letters: evader, reaved. | |
-3 letters: deary, deave, deray, drave, eared, eaved, evade, every, raved, rayed, ready, reave, redye, reedy, veery. | |
-4 letters: aery, aver, dare, davy, dear, deer, dere, deva, dray, dree, dyer, eave, eery, ever, eyed, eyer, eyra, eyre, eyry, rave, read, rede, reed, vary, veer, vera, very, yard, yare, year. | |
-5 letters: are, ave, aye, day. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-r-v-y-y" | |
+4 letters: everydayness. | |
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