everyday

See also: every day and every-day

English

Alternative forms

• every day (obsolete)
• every-day
• every day's

Etymology

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every +‎ day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/

Adjective

everyday (not comparable)

1. 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.

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.

Synonyms

• mundane
• quotidian
• routine
• unremarkable
• workaday

Derived terms

• everyday life
• it's not everyday

 

Translations

appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions

• Bikol Central: pang-aro-aldaw
• Bulgarian: ежедневен (bg) (ežedneven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日常的 (rìchángde)

• Danish: hverdags-, daglig (da)
• Dutch: alledaags (nl)
• Finnish: tavallinen (fi), arkinen (fi)
• Georgian: ყოველდღიური (q̇oveldɣiuri)
• German: (in combined words) Alltags- (de), alltäglich (de)
• Greek: καθημερινός (el) (kathimerinós), συνηθισμένος (el) (synithisménos)
• Hindi: रोज़ाना (rozānā)
• Hungarian: hétköznapi (hu)
• Irish: gnáth- (combining form)
• Italian: quotidiano (it), giornaliero (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: күнделікті (kündelıktı)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdagslig

• Polish: codzienny (pl) m
• Portuguese: cotidiano (pt)
• Romanian: de fiecare zi, cotidian (ro) m
• Russian: повседне́вный (ru) (povsednévnyj), ежедне́вный (ru) (ježednévnyj), каждодне́вный (ru) (každodnévnyj)
• Spanish: de diario (clothes)
• Tagalog: pang-araw-araw
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gündelik (tr)
• Vietnamese: hằng ngày (vi), thường ngày (vi)
• Welsh: pob dydd

commonplace, ordinary

• Bulgarian: обикновен (bg) (obiknoven), делничен (bg) (delničen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常見的／常见的

• Danish: hverdags-, dagligdags
• Dutch: alledaags (nl)
• Esperanto: vulgara
• Finnish: jokapäiväinen (fi), tavallinen (fi), arkinen (fi)
• French: usuel (fr)
• Georgian: ყოველდღიური (q̇oveldɣiuri), საყოველდღეო (saq̇oveldɣeo), ჩვეულებრივი (čveulebrivi)
• German: alltäglich (de), gemein (de), Allerwelts- (de) (in combined words)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγελαῖος (agelaîos)

• Hungarian: mindennapos (hu)
• Irish: gnáth- (combining form)
• Italian: ordinario (it), comune (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ធម្មតា (km) (thŏəmmĕəʼdaa)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kyrgyz: күнүмдүк (ky) (künümdük)
• Latin: cotidianus (la)
• Maori: kai parāoa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdagslig

• Portuguese: comum (pt), ordinário (pt)
• Romanian: ordinar (ro)
• Russian: обы́чный (ru) (obýčnyj), обы́денный (ru) (obýdennyj)
• Spanish: común (es)
• Swedish: vardaglig (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gündelik (tr)
• Vietnamese: tầm thường (vi)

Adverb

everyday

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

Usage notes

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.

Noun

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. […]

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Everyday”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 345, column 1.