# 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: /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### 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.
* 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.
* (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.

#### Alternative forms

* every day (obsolete)
* every-day (archaic)
* every day's

#### Synonyms

* mundane
* quotidian
* routine
* unremarkable
* workaday

#### Derived terms

* everyday carry
* everyday life
* everydayness
* everydays
* everyday skill
* everydaywear

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

### 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.
** 2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press)‎, 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. […]

#### Translations
### 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.