noun
definition
(rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion
adjective
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Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
definition
Commonplace, ordinary
Examples of everyday in a Sentence
These activities were part of the culture of everyday life.
I prefer you in your little gray everyday dress.
The mass of the nation, of course, was always much more struck by the "signs" and predictions of the prophets than by their spiritual ideas; we see how the idea of supernatural insight and power in everyday matters dominates the popular conception of Elijah and Elisha in the books of Kings.
This was more evidence of Howie's ineptness at the everyday chores the rest of us took for granted.
In this endeavour Lotze discards as useless and untenable many favourite conceptions of the school, many crude notions of everyday life.
The lawlessness of the nobility was most noticeable in the province of Great Poland, where outrageous acts of violence were of everyday occurrence.
In an age when, with the evolution of the feudal organization cf society, even everyday costume was becoming a uniform, symbolizing in material and colour the exact status of the wearer, it was natural that in the parallel organization of the Church the official vestments should undergo a similar process of differentiation and definition.
Everyday I do exercises at home to improve my health including press-ups.
Indeed some teachers even went so far as to ascribe a higher value to it, since it comes into closer relation with the details of everyday life.
In theory, the knight was the defender of widows and orphans; but in practice wardships and marriages were bought and sold as a matter of everyday routine like stocks and shares in the modern market.
They may not bump into them very often in what we call "everyday life" but do know them well enough to friend them.
Of course I do not refer to beautiful sentiments, but to the higher truths relating to everyday life.
Life is more exciting when one treads away from the everyday path, seeking bold new horizons.
As late as the 6th century these garments were common both to the clergy and laity, and, so far as their character was concerned, were used both in the liturgy and in everyday life.
Our ideas upon the subject are purely arbitrary, and depend upon our everyday experience.
Would any of you truly miss your everyday lives?
Alex and Gerald talked around and over the bobbing heads of children on their laps as if it were an everyday occurrence.
So late as 1260 the provincial synod of Cologne decreed that the vestis camisialis must be long enough entirely to cover the everyday dress.
In the Eastern churches the only vestment that has any true analogy with the dalmatic or liturgical upper tunic is the sakkos, the tunic worn by deacons and subdeacons over their everyday clothes being the equivalent of the Western alb.
If men were really to be made obedient, it could only be by stopping them from thinking for themselves about the everyday problems of conduct; and the best way to do this was to furnish them beforehand with a ready-made code of answers to such problems, warranted to meet all needs.
Strange how her perspective had changed now that survival was no longer an everyday struggle.
The Code enslaved me as an everyday Immortal.
The solemn nothings that fill our everyday life blossom suddenly into bright possibilities.
His remembering such a small detail of everyday life astonished the doctor.
Fred, age seventy-six, was quick to embrace any hint of mystery and attach it to the most common everyday happening.
And his style has an additional charm for modern readers, because it is employed in describing scenes from the everyday life of Athens.'
Of New Kingdom tales, the story of the Two Brothers is frankly in the simplest speech of everyday life, while others are more stilted.
In Paris about this time plague was an everyday occurrence, of which some were less afraid than of a headache (Borgarucci).
Even the simple, everyday task was done with his flawless, effortless movement.
The excavations at Senkereh were peculiarly successful in the discovery of inscribed remains, consisting of clay tablets, chiefly contracts, but including also an important mathematical tablet and a number of tablets of a description almost peculiar to Senkereh, exhibiting in basrelief scenes of everyday life.
The other leading verse-writers were Karl Vilhelm Bottiger (1807-1878), the son-in-law and biographer of Tegner, who, in addition to his lyrical poetry, chiefly of the sentimental kind, wrote an admirable series of monographs on Swedish men of letters; Johan Borjesson (1790-1866), the last of the Phosphorists, author of various romantic dramas; Vilhelm August Detlof von Braun (1813-1860), a humorous lyrist; " Talis Qualis," whose real name was Karl Vilhelm August Strandberg (1818-1877); Oscar Patrick Sturzen-Becker (181'- 1869), better known as " Orvar Odd," a lyrical poet who was also the author of a series of amusing sketches of everyday life; and August Teodor Blanche (1811-1868), the popular dramatist.
There thus grew up an ungrammatical dialect of Dutch, suited only to the most ordinary requirements of the everyday life of a rural population.
Everybody does do ethnography, all of the time, everyday.
Sitting here with a drink, watching red kites soar across the clear blue skies, you really can forget about everyday life.
The few cases that are better documented can be explained by recourse to the mechanisms of everyday physics.
This viewpoint seems reasonable because it is largely consistent with our everyday experience of life.
It was as if the minds of these morally exhausted men found relief in everyday, commonplace occurrences.
Everyday is the best time to buy anything Christmas from them.
Everyday I wipe up the puddle of wee around the toilet and have to stop myself slipping cos you haven't used the bathmat.
While we do not exclude active trail blazers, we initially focus more on paths built up as a passive by-product of everyday activity.
Everyday shoes, trainers, school shoes, hiking boots, branded and designer fashion footwear.
Everyday I wish you weren't so braw coz I miss you.
For example, the everyday contract " Please build my new school " covers 10 pages of contractual bumf.
A well-stocked medicine cabinet will help you to treat many everyday illnesses at home.
These feasts, like other ceremonials and rituals, help to overcome the tedium of everyday life.
They also have a chandlery that is open everyday.
It's the everyday story of a showbiz tyro, his childhood chum and Auntie.
In everyday life, however, the term cirrhosis has tended to become linked with alcoholic cirrhosis.
Paperback from Bible Reading Fellowship £ 5.99 100 Favorite Prayers Lois Rock A cheerful and comprehensive compendium of prayers for everyday.
So Pompeii is conceived initially as a four-part television series recreating - with strikingly detailed computer graphics - everyday life in the Roman town.