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everyday
English
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): /??v?i?de?/
Adjective
everyday (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
- 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.
- 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
Synonyms
- mundane
- quotidian
- routine
- unremarkable
- workaday
Translations
Adverb
everyday
- 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.
Noun
everyday (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
- (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion
- Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.
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 15566697, page 345, column 1.
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demotic
English
Etymology
First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek ????????? (d?motikós, “common”), from ??????? (d?mót?s, “commoner”), from ????? (dêmos, “the common people”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?.?m?.t?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?.m?.t?k/
Adjective
demotic (not comparable)
- Of or for the common people.
- Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular
- Antonym: formal
- Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 B.C.E. and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
- Synonym: enchorial
- Coordinate term: abnormal hieratic
- Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
Derived terms
- demoticist
Related terms
- Demotic Greek
- demotist
Translations
Noun
demotic (plural demotics)
- (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
- Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
Translations
Further reading
- demotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “demotic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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