Standard Lemma guide

everyday

adj · adv · noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: workaday

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Commonplace, ordinary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, typical, unremarkable, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck, common as pig tracks, dime a dozen, everyday, frequent, general, habitual, nonrare, par for the course, pedestrian, plain, regular, routinary, ten a penny, two a penny, usual, workaday, medial, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, expected, garden variety, improminent, natural, normal, ordinary, par, plain vanilla, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, unexceptional, unstrange, vulgar, wakeaday

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Present or recurring every day.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literally, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: circadian, daily, quotidian, diurnal, hemeral, nychthemeral, per diem

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Commonplace or ordinary during daytime.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adv

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, misspelling

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The ordinary or routine day or occasion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

Examples

  • Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective satellite

Meaning 8

commonplace and ordinary

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the familiar everyday world

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adjective satellite

Meaning 9

appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • casual clothes
  • everyday clothes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: casual, daily

Antonyms: none provided

10

adjective satellite

Meaning 10

found in the ordinary course of events- Anita Diamant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a placid everyday scene
  • it was a routine day
  • there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Central Bikol: pang-aro-aldaw — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Bulgarian: ежедневен (ežedneven) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Catalan: quotidià — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Chinese Mandarin: 日常的 (rìchángde) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Danish: hverdags- — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Danish: daglig — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Dutch: alledaags — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Esperanto: kutima — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Estonian: igapäevane — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Estonian: tavaline — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Estonian: argine — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Estonian: tavapärane — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Finnish: tavallinen — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Finnish: arkinen — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Georgian: ყოველდღიური (q̇oveldɣiuri) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • German: Alltags- — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • German: alltäglich — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Greek: καθημερινός (kathimerinós) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Greek: συνηθισμένος (synithisménos) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Hebrew: יוֹמְיוֹמִי (yomyomí) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Hindi: दैनिक (dainik) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Hindi: रोज़ाना (rozānā) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Hungarian: hétköznapi — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Irish: gnáth- — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Italian: quotidiano — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Italian: giornaliero — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Kazakh: күнделікті (kündelıktı) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hverdagslig — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvardagsleg — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Polish: codzienny — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Portuguese: cotidiano — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Romanian: de fiecare zi — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Romanian: cotidian — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Russian: повседне́вный (povsednévnyj) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Russian: ежедне́вный (ježednévnyj) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Russian: каждодне́вный (každodnévnyj) — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Spanish: de diario — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Spanish: cuotidiano — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Tagalog: pang-araw-araw — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Turkish: gündelik — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Vietnamese: hằng ngày — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Vietnamese: thường ngày — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Welsh: pob dydd — appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • Bulgarian: обикновен (obiknoven) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Bulgarian: делничен (delničen) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Chinese Mandarin: 常見的 /常见的 — commonplace, ordinary
  • Danish: hverdags- — commonplace, ordinary
  • Danish: dagligdags — commonplace, ordinary
  • Dutch: alledaags — commonplace, ordinary
  • Esperanto: vulgara — commonplace, ordinary
  • Estonian: igapäevane — commonplace, ordinary
  • Estonian: tavaline — commonplace, ordinary
  • Estonian: argine — commonplace, ordinary
  • Finnish: jokapäiväinen — commonplace, ordinary
  • Finnish: tavallinen — commonplace, ordinary
  • Finnish: arkinen — commonplace, ordinary
  • French: usuel — commonplace, ordinary
  • Georgian: ყოველდღიური (q̇oveldɣiuri) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Georgian: საყოველდღეო (saq̇oveldɣeo) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი (čveulebrivi) — commonplace, ordinary
  • German: alltäglich — commonplace, ordinary
  • German: gemein — commonplace, ordinary
  • German: Allerwelts- — commonplace, ordinary
  • Ancient Greek: ἀγελαῖος (agelaîos) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Hungarian: mindennapos — commonplace, ordinary
  • Ingrian: jokapäiväin — commonplace, ordinary
  • Irish: gnáth- — commonplace, ordinary
  • Italian: ordinario — commonplace, ordinary
  • Italian: comune — commonplace, ordinary
  • Khmer: ធម្មតា (thŏəmmĕəʼdaa) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Kyrgyz: күнүмдүк (künümdük) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Latin: cotidianus — commonplace, ordinary
  • Māori: kai parāoa — commonplace, ordinary
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hverdagslig — commonplace, ordinary
  • Portuguese: comum — commonplace, ordinary
  • Portuguese: ordinário — commonplace, ordinary
  • Romanian: ordinar — commonplace, ordinary
  • Russian: обы́чный (obýčnyj) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Russian: обы́денный (obýdennyj) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Spanish: común — commonplace, ordinary
  • Spanish: cuotidiano — commonplace, ordinary
  • Swedish: vardaglig — commonplace, ordinary
  • Turkish: gündelik — commonplace, ordinary
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیاغی (bayağı) — commonplace, ordinary
  • Vietnamese: tầm thường — commonplace, ordinary
  • Hungarian: mindennap — ordinary or routine day or occasion
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