everyday en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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.
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(not-comparable) Commonplace, ordinary.
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 42Then 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: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, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025:
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(literally, not-comparable) 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.
[1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd., page 21: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: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 Inquirer; reprinted in Mark Hutter, “[Mate Selection] Mate Selection in Feudal and Contemporary Japan”, in The Changing Family, 3rd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, →ISBN, page 268, column 1:“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:
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(not-comparable, rare) Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
The locus of emancipatory hopes shifts from everyday to everynight life.
1997, Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz, “Rebellions of Everynight Life”, in Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz, editors, Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| every day's | alternative | lexicographic | |
| every-day | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| every day | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
everydayness · everydaywear · everydays · everyday-carry · everyday skill · everyday life · everyday carry
Synonyms
plain vanilla · par for the course · standard issue · medial · per diem · normal · common as pig tracks · commonplace · common-or-garden · basic · general · nychthemeral · routine · common as muck · nonrare · congruent · conventional · quotidian · regular · customary · wakeaday · average · plain · unstrange · run-of-the-mill · garden variety · habitual · circadian · quotidian · usual · improminent · everyday · unremarkable · plain · daily · basic · pedestrian · common · frequent · routine · regular · dime a dozen · usual · par · bog-standard · quotidian · unremarkable · expected · common as dirt · diurnal · typical · workaday · hemeral · natural · workaday · daily · mundane · common-and-garden · routinary · ten a penny · everyday · common as bums · unexceptional · vulgar · typical · circadian · common · quotidian · bog-standard · standard · consistent · ordinary · mundane · two a penny · quotidian · par for the course · workaday · average · routine
Translations (100)
el καθημερινός (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · fi jokapäiväinen (commonplace, ordinary) · tl pang-araw-araw (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ko 보통(普通)의 (commonplace, ordinary) · kk күнделікті (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · et igapäevane (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · vi hằng ngày (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · pt comum (commonplace, ordinary) · fi tavallinen (commonplace, ordinary) · sv vardaglig (commonplace, ordinary) · ka საყოველდღეო (commonplace, ordinary) · nb hverdagslig (commonplace, ordinary) · ca quotidià (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · it giornaliero (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · eo kutima (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · nn kvardagsleg (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ko 매일(每日)의 (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · it quotidiano (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · da hverdags- (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · cmn 日常的 (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · vi tầm thường (commonplace, ordinary) · ru повседне́вный (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · de Alltags- (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · es común (commonplace, ordinary) · el συνηθισμένος (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · la cotidianus (commonplace, ordinary) · bg де́лничен (commonplace, ordinary) · it ordinario (commonplace, ordinary) · hi रोज़ाना (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ja 日常の (commonplace, ordinary) · mi kai parāoa (commonplace, ordinary) · ru обы́чный (commonplace, ordinary) · et argine (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · it comune (commonplace, ordinary) · bg ежедне́вен (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · da hverdags- (commonplace, ordinary) · bg обикнове́н (commonplace, ordinary) · ka ყოველდღიური (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · tr gündelik (commonplace, ordinary) · hi दैनिक (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · fi arkinen (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · tr gündelik (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · fi arkinen (commonplace, ordinary) · be штодзённы (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · fr usuel (commonplace, ordinary) · ota بیاغی (commonplace, ordinary) · bcl pang-aro-aldaw (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · es de diario (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · cy pob dydd (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ko 통상(通常)의 (commonplace, ordinary) · uk повсякде́нний (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · pt cotidiano (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · eo vulgara (commonplace, ordinary) · nl alledaags (commonplace, ordinary) · ga gnáth- (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · es cuotidiano (commonplace, ordinary) · da dagligdags (commonplace, ordinary) · grc ἀγελαῖος (commonplace, ordinary) · ro cotidian (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ru ежедне́вный (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ro de fiecare zi (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · pt ordinário (commonplace, ordinary) · he יוֹמְיוֹמִי (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · et igapäevane (commonplace, ordinary) · de alltäglich (commonplace, ordinary) · et tavaline (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · km ធម្មតា (commonplace, ordinary) · ru обы́денный (commonplace, ordinary) · hu hétköznapi (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ja 普通な (commonplace, ordinary) · de gemein (commonplace, ordinary) · ka ჩვეულებრივი (commonplace, ordinary) · nl alledaags (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · de alltäglich (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ro ordinar (commonplace, ordinary) · ja 日常の (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · uk щоде́нний (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · et argine (commonplace, ordinary) · ja 日々の (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ky күнүмдүк (commonplace, ordinary) · fi tavallinen (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ka ყოველდღიური (commonplace, ordinary) · ko 일상(日常)의 (commonplace, ordinary) · izh jokapäiväin (commonplace, ordinary) · ko 일상(日常)의 (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · pl codzienny (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · cmn 每日的 (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · nb hverdagslig (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · de Allerwelts- (commonplace, ordinary) · cmn 常見的 /常见的 (commonplace, ordinary) · ga gnáth- (commonplace, ordinary) · vi thường ngày (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ru каждодне́вный (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · et tavapärane (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · ja 通常な (commonplace, ordinary) · da daglig (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · hu mindennapos (commonplace, ordinary) · ja 毎日の (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · es cuotidiano (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions) · et tavaline (commonplace, ordinary)