every-day

Adjective

everyday (not comparable)

1. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
   • When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar

   Synonyms:

   workaday

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.[…]2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press), UPNE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110

   Synonyms:

   mundane, quotidian, routine, typical, unremarkable, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums

3. (literally) 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...[1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd., page 21

   Synonyms:

   circadian, daily, quotidian, diurnal, hemeral, nychthemeral, per diem

4. (rare) Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
   • This was an everyday and everynight scene a couple of decades ago.1931, Jack While, Fifty Years of Fire Fighting in London, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., page 18

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