everyday
//ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ//
Definitions
1.Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
2.Commonplace, ordinary.
- Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.
- 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.
3.Present or recurring every day.
- We hope this becomes an ‘everyday’ book in your kitchen – or at least an ‘everyweek’ book.
- 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.
- “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.
1.Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3179
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.