everyday

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See also: every day and every-day

English

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Etymology

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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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everyday (not comparable)

  1. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
    • 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
      Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.
  3. (rare) Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.
    Coordinate term: everynight
    • 1931, Jack While, Fifty Years of Fire Fighting in London, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., page 18:
      This was an everyday and everynight scene a couple of decades ago.
    • 1992, Patricia Connelly, Pat Armstrong, editors, Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
      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.
    • 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:
      The locus of emancipatory hopes shifts from everyday to everynight life.

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Adverb

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everyday

  1. Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).

Usage notes

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When describing the frequency of an action denoted by a verb, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour, every day, every week, etc.

Influenza is considered an everyday virus because it infects people every day.

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everyday (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
  2. (rare) The ordinary or routine day or occasion.
    Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.
    • 2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press)‎[1], UPNE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
      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. []

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