everyday

/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/

everyday adjective: appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions. Also the misspelling of every day.

Adjective

everyday (not comparable)

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
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
- Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42
Synonyms:

mundane, quotidian, routine, typical, unremarkable, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums
(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
- “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.1993, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Cast (The Beeler Large Print Mystery Series), Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, published 1999, →ISBN, page 207
Synonyms:

circadian, daily, quotidian, diurnal, hemeral, nychthemeral, per diem
(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
- 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.1992, Patricia Connelly, Pat Armstrong, editors, Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, pages 16–17

Noun

everyday (uncountable)

(obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.
(rare) The ordinary or routine day or occasion.
- Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.

Also used as

everyday is also the misspelling of every day.

everyday meaning in Hindi, Gujarati, Tagalog and Vietnamese

everyday in Hindi

appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions: दैनिक dainik, रोज़ाना rozānā

everyday in Gujarati

રોજિંદા, રોજિંદી

everyday in Tagalog

appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions: pang-araw-araw

everyday in Vietnamese

appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions: hằng ngày, thường ngày
commonplace, ordinary: tầm thường

Examples of everyday in a sentence

By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to “remigrate” millions of everyday people out of America.2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN...
For Everyday Recording / For example: Programme time for timer recording every day from 20:00–22:45 on timer programme number 7.[1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading...
It’s not an everyday, or even an everyweek, event, but nowadays you can sometimes see young couples kissing goodbye at street corners and train stations.1994 November 9, T[homas] R[oy] Reid, “Some Japanese Kiss in Public; Their Elders Are Shocked . . . Shocked!”, in The Philadelphia...
We hope this becomes an ‘everyday’ book in your kitchen – or at least an ‘everyweek’ book.2005, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Fizz Carr, The River Cottage Family Cookbook, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 11:

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Synonyms of everyday

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Forms of everyday

alternative form	every day's
alternative form (obsolete)	every day
alternative form (archaic)	every-day

Origin of everyday

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

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Questions about everyday

What does everyday mean?: Everyday means appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
What is everyday in Hindi?: Everyday in Hindi is दैनिक (dainik), रोज़ाना (rozānā). See Everyday meaning in Hindi.
How do you use everyday in a sentence?: By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to “remigrate” millions of everyday people out of America.
What part of speech is everyday?: Everyday can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce everyday?: Everyday is pronounced /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/.

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