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everyday

Pronunciation: /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/

The English word “everyday” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
  3. Present or recurring every day.
  4. Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.

noun

  1. Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.
  2. The ordinary or routine day or occasion.

Etymology

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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