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quotidians

quotidians is the plural of quotidian.

Meaning of quotidian

Noun

quotidian (plural quotidians)

  1. (archaic, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
    • If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It
  2. (historical, Anglicanism) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
  3. (usually, with-definite-article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
    • More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.2005 September 21, Lucy Mangan, “Has Lost lost the plot?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023

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Questions about quotidians

What is quotidians the plural of?
Quotidians is the plural of quotidian.

Words near quotidians in the dictionary

  1. quotidial
  2. quotidially
  3. quotidian
  4. quotidianly
  5. quotidianness
  6. quotidians
  7. quotient
  8. quotient group
  9. quotient groups
  10. quotient map
  11. quotient maps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quotidians (page history and authors); quotidian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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