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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
everyday
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/an everyday event
▪ The death of a child was a common event in those days.
a daily/everyday chore
▪ When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.
an everyday/commonplace experience (=one that is typical of normal life)
▪ The sound of gunfire is an everyday experience in the city.
everyday experience (=experience of normal life)
▪ Hunger is part of everyday experience for these children.
everyday/daily/day-to-day existence (=someone's normal life that is the same most days)
▪ He saw drugs as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday existence.
ordinary/everyday clothes
▪ Everyone else was wearing ordinary clothes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Look at how they compare with our normal everyday activities.
▪ To ensure that this happens, I try to make writing an everyday activity.
▪ They were just pleased that the movies had become a normal everyday activity.
▪ Thus our work assumes a kind of holiness that permeates even the most ordinary of everyday activities.
▪ She had her doubts: Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities.
▪ So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities.
▪ A similar interest was taken by the regional and international press in the course of their everyday activities.
▪ Information is also needed by the patient to permit the continuance of other everyday activities.
business
▪ The prosaic sight of monks going about their everyday business, just when she needed them, was irresistible.
▪ Worse, they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions, where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut.
▪ Publishing information as part of everyday business activity and publishing for profit are only two of the three mainstream publishing activities.
▪ Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability.
conversation
▪ Certainly there are several differences between the structure of these extended interviews and everyday conversation.
▪ They have been around for centuries and many have become key components of everyday conversation.
▪ Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
▪ Wyatt, the names she used in everyday conversation.
▪ In everyday conversation, speakers usually ask questions in order to extend their knowledge.
discourse
▪ The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
▪ Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.
▪ The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.
▪ Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse.
▪ In the first case he offered a solution in the terms of everyday discourse.
▪ Clients bring many issues to the solicitor, expressed and constituted in terms of a variety of everyday discourses.
▪ There are two definitional syntheses that have a particular currency, both in everyday discourse and among scholarly approaches.
event
▪ Likewise the affirmations that are created out of the everyday events can come back into it as contributions.
▪ It is a kind of bracketing-off from everyday events.
▪ They are doctored-up mirror images, innocuous illustrations of everyday events in which skill of execution utterly predominates over imagination.
▪ For the successful person, a winning attitude means looking to learn something in all the everyday events that you encounter.
▪ What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
existence
▪ It affects the quality of your everyday existence.
▪ It is a wonderful thing to spend one's everyday existence paddling in a cesspool of untapped energy.
▪ Drug dealing, indiscriminate violence, other crime and family disorientation and disintegration are now all aspects of everyday existence.
▪ The new breed of messed-up young things deal with the emotional extremities of everyday existence.
experience
▪ Farmers, sailors, and chemists get by perfectly well on the basis of everyday experience, without recourse to Aristotelian logic.
▪ To decide whether this emphasis is justified, we should translate the results into everyday experience.
▪ The basic idea, in short, is that the problem of individuation should be approached from the horizon of ordinary everyday experience.
▪ Sitting in one position to observe and record appearances does not conform to the majority of our everyday experience of landscape.
▪ This relationship between frequency and speed, which is called the Doppler effect, is an everyday experience.
▪ The laws on ritual purity hammered this home in practical everyday experience.
▪ They are based on observations of everyday experience and language use.
▪ It is these everyday experiences which help the child towards understanding.
item
▪ But life has become increasingly problematic as the years have progressed, because of the widespread use of microchips in everyday items.
▪ It adds a bold splash of colour to all kinds of snacks, and turns everyday items into original-looking and great-tasting treats.
language
▪ It is usual in popular journalism to write short sentences and to use clear, everyday language.
▪ Our everyday language reinforces the conception of the womb as a permanent space, an empty lodging waiting for a tenant.
▪ It is, however, a term clearly understood in everyday language.
▪ To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.
▪ Unsophisticated everyday language is remarkably accurate in the way it describes the spirituality of the world.
▪ There are hundreds and hundreds of words that we use in everyday language to describe them.
life
▪ Others have developed a sort of domestic hyper-realism, seeking out the squalor of everyday life.
▪ For example, the constructions can be found everywhere in everyday life.
▪ The difficulty starts when one tries to say exactly what is the relationship between everyday life and the structure of society.
▪ They are put forward as the stuff of everyday life.
▪ These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.
▪ Deborah described her everyday life with her sons, which seemed very hectic.
▪ A magically barred inner space, removed from everyday life.
▪ A soul released from Nature, from impressions, and from everyday life.
object
▪ Mach almost always creates his sculptures insitu, using everyday objects.
▪ In her more recent works, avalanches of everyday objects seem to fall from the sky.
▪ Most of them were named after mythological characters, though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar.
▪ Using everyday objects, basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young.
▪ Orthographic projections Orthographic projections are right angled views ideally suited to the study of everyday objects.
occurrence
▪ Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
▪ These next applications deal with everyday occurrences, and neural networks are playing a part in each of them.
▪ What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence.
▪ Demos to outsiders, if not an everyday occurrence, were not unusual.
▪ It was so long ago that it happened - it's an everyday occurrence now, people battering and killing children.
▪ It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.
▪ They took near-disaster as an everyday occurrence, which it probably is.
▪ There cancer is not feared and dreaded, but is treated in a matter-of-fact way as an everyday occurrence.
people
▪ Instead, they were everyday people dressed in their everyday clothes.
▪ It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.
▪ Illustrative of every-day life and everyday people.
▪ To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.
reality
▪ Not so where an illusion of everyday reality is more important.
▪ Most of us, however, do not lead lives in which danger and adventure are everyday realities.
▪ Because writs, charters, and other chancery letters became everyday affairs, their language was now intended to express everyday realities.
▪ Our everyday reality is a grand illusion, a dream metaphor, which we are creating.
situation
▪ Widespread and systematic crime occurs in normal, everyday situations.
▪ I also began to listen and probe in informal research settings-the everyday situations that are rich with easily overlooked details.
▪ You may like to check just how well you listen by practising listening in some simple everyday situations.
▪ Although nearly all have used the metric system throughout their school careers they use Imperial measures in everyday situations.
▪ The video showed everyday situations which the staff could relate to, and enabled them to make very constructive comments.
▪ As we do so an alternative approach will be offered which seems closer to communication in everyday situations.
▪ Songs are set in everyday situations and many listeners appreciate the gritty realism, although others consider the earthiness intolerably shallow.
speech
▪ Summary statements are useful in everyday speech, where we are continually describing people as intelligent or aggressive or generous or nice.
▪ It was just everyday speech, he said, and terrible.
▪ What really disappointed was Amis' decline as one of the great modulators of everyday speech.
▪ In everyday speech it is a decidedly negative word.
task
▪ Some of the jobs around a farm or homestead were minor everyday tasks and some were huge and laborious undertakings.
▪ The awards are in recognition of their everyday tasks to help others or for those who have overcome personal illness or disability.
▪ This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other.
▪ By asking about the everyday tasks of parenting the schedules obviate the need for time-consuming psychometric testing.
▪ The less exercise you do, the more unfit you will become, and the harder everyday tasks will seem.
things
▪ My granny took to her knitting, and we spoke a little of everyday things.
▪ So the ordinary everyday things that children did became scary in her eyes.
▪ We are not carrying the cross when we are poor or suffering small everyday things - these are all part of life.
▪ She wondered who would buy this house, moving in with their everyday things, their everyday lives.
▪ Doris Howell recently suffered the shock of losing her sight practically overnight and finds everyday things difficult to cope with.
▪ If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner.
▪ Take time to look at and enjoy simple everyday things, time to admire people and places.
▪ That's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework.
use
▪ Reactions have varied, but it's universally agreed that the preview is way too unstable and slow for everyday use.
▪ But they are both just too big for everyday use.
▪ This is the money that banks keep in their safes or tills for everyday use.
▪ The bottom octave and a half of its compass is the best part of its range for everyday use.
▪ Keys made entirely of iron were also in everyday use.
▪ It's still too eggy for everyday use.
▪ I found the Vulcan to be a highly versatile jacket - great for hillwalking, spring skiing and everyday use.
▪ Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period, as excavations at Pompeii have shown.
work
▪ Of course, with benefit of experience, this is no problem in everyday work.
▪ Transnational corporations have moved increasingly toward growth strategies that weave information technologies into the fabric of everyday work.
▪ Consultancies have been slow to invest in the available new technology for the efficient detailing of their everyday work.
▪ Today all sorts of everyday work happens on the computer.
▪ This inculcates in rural officers a notably greater intolerance of pollution in everyday work.
world
▪ Measurement involves an intervention by our everyday world into the quantum world.
▪ One day, we decided we would try to write about something from our everyday world.
▪ Television is already about as divorced from the real, everyday world as it could possibly be.
▪ The silence on the terraces outside the monastery heightens the sense of remove from the everyday world.
▪ This poem shows the scientist as a law unto himself, outside the everyday world, not even hot-blooded.
▪ Such use of the will is far different from what ordinarily passes for resolution in the everyday world.
▪ Chardin observed the minutiae of the everyday world.
▪ Our everyday world is a truly magical oracle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Arthritis made it difficult for him to do everyday things like take out the garbage or mow the lawn.
▪ Noland makes sculptures out of everyday objects.
▪ The book is written in simple everyday language.
▪ The first week of the course is spent teaching students English phrases needed for everyday life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Detachment from the everyday gives us a higher view of our lives.
▪ One focuses on the everyday lives of the First Peoples.
▪ These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.
▪ Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
▪ We've come a long way - with everyday improvements such as ... The range of goods in the shops.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Everyday

Everyday \Ev"er*y*day`\, a. Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit of clothes.

The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment.
--Sir. J. Herchel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
everyday

1630s, "worn on ordinary days," as opposed to Sundays or high days, from noun meaning "a week day" (late 14c.), from every (adj.) + day (n.). Extended sense of "to be met with every day, common" is from 1763.

Wiktionary
everyday

a. 1 appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions 2 commonplace, ordinary adv. (misspelling of every day English) n. (qualifier: rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion

WordNet
everyday

  1. adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "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"- Anita Diamant [syn: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]

  2. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: casual]

  3. commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"

Wikipedia
Everyday (Dave Matthews Band album)

Everyday is the fourth studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on February 27, 2001.

Everyday (Hillsong United album)

Everyday is the first live praise and worship album by Hillsong United. Following the success of the EP One, the album was recorded at the 1999 Hillsong Conference and released later that year.In 2000 the album was certified gold by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 35000 units.

Everyday (Widespread Panic album)

Everyday is the third studio album by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. It was first released by Capricorn Records and Warner Bros. Records on March 3, 1993. It would later be re-released in 2001 by Zomba Music Group. On July 3, 2014 the band announced that Everyday would be reissued on Vinyl in August, 2014. The reissue will be distributed via ThinkIndie distribution and sold only at participating independent record stores.

Beginning on November 5, 1992, The band recorded the album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, AL. They were in the studio for roughly 5 weeks.

The album reached a peak position of #184 on the Billboard 200 chart and #10 on the Heatseekers chart.

The album was the group's first to feature bandmate, John Hermann.

Everyday

Everyday or Every Day may refer to:

Everyday (Dave Matthews Band song)

"Everyday" is the closing track and third radio single from Dave Matthews Band's album Everyday. It reached #36 on the Top 40 Mainstream, #38 on Modern Rock Tracks, and #8 on Adult Top 40. A live version of "Everyday" is featured on the Dave Matthews Band compilation album The Best of What's Around Vol. 1. The song evolved from an earlier DMB song entitled "#36" and references The Beatles' song All You Need Is Love.

When the song is played live, the song "#36" is mixed in with the song "Everyday." It is also a tradition for the crowd to sing, " Hani, Hani, come and dance with me" during the parts of the song that #36 mixes in with. This can be heard on such CDs as The Best of What's Around Vol. 1, Live Trax Vol. 6, The Gorge, Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado, and on Weekend on the Rocks.

An acoustic version of the song was played live on February 28, 2001 by Dave Matthews and Trey Anastasio during the latter's solo performance at the Landmark Theatre in Richmond, Virginia.

On September 21, 2001, Dave Matthews played an acoustic version of the song as part of the America: A Tribute to Heroes concert, performed in remembrance of the victims of the September 11 attacks.

The song was not originally supposed to be the third single from the album. "When the World Ends" was originally supposed to be the single, but after 9/11 it was thought that the dark title would not be appropriate.

Everyday (video)

Noah Takes a Picture of Himself Everyday for 6 Years (as titled on YouTube), or Everyday (as shown on the title card), is a viral video produced by New York photographer Noah Kalina. It features a fast montage of thousands of pictures of Kalina spanning a period of six years all played sequentially.

Everyday (Bon Jovi song)

"Everyday" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released as the lead single from the band's 2002 album Bounce. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Andreas Carlsson. "Everyday" was nominated at the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Everyday (Phil Collins song)

"Everyday" is a ballad pop song by Phil Collins released as the second single of his fifth studio album, Both Sides. It was also been released as the seventh track on 2004 compilation album, Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New. The single achieved success mostly in North America in the spring of 1994.

Everyday (OMD song)

"Everyday" was the third and last single from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1993 album Liberator. Co-founder Paul Humphreys, who had left the band four years prior, is credited as a co-writer.

"Everyday" was the only single from Liberator to miss the UK Top 25, charting at #59. Its accompanying music video features Sara Cox, who would later be known as a BBC Radio DJ.

Everyday (Rudebwoy)

"Everyday (Rudebwoy)" is a hip-hop song by Kardinal Offishall featuring Ray Robinson. It was the second single from his third album Fire and Glory.

The song contains a sample of " People Everyday" by Arrested Development. It was successful in Canada, peaking at #16 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The music video, directed by RT!, earned three MuchMusic Video Awards in June 2006.

Everyday (Buddy Holly song)

"Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957, and released on September 20, 1957, as the B-side of " Peggy Sue". On the original single the Crickets are not mentioned, but it is known that Holly plays acoustic guitar; drummer Jerry Allison slaps his hands on his lap for percussion; Joe B. Mauldin plays a standup acoustic bass; and the producer Norman Petty's wife, Vi, plays the celesta (a keyboard instrument with a glockenspiel-like tone, used in such classical pieces as "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" from The Nutcracker). The song is an economical 2 minutes and 5 seconds long. It is ranked number 238 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Everyday (The Oak Ridge Boys song)

"Everyday" is a song written by Dave Loggins and J.D. Martin, and recorded by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released in July 1984 as the first new single from their Greatest Hits 2 album. "Everyday" was The Oak Ridge Boys' tenth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent thirteen weeks on the country chart.

Everyday (Slade song)

"Everyday" is a single from glam rock band Slade that appeared on the album Old New Borrowed and Blue, and was written by the usual collaboration of lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. The single was released in 1974 and peaked at number 3 in the UK, spending seven weeks on the chart, the shortest time of any charting Slade single at that time. The single's first week upon release peaked at number 6 and stayed in the top 10 for four weeks. Everyday marked a change from Slade's usual style. The public did not expect a ballad to be released and - with the exception of " Far Far Away" - Slade would not reach higher than number 3 in the UK again until 1983's " My Oh My".

The single was certified UK Silver by BPI in April 1974.

The single was awarded a Silver Disc only three days after its release.

The Record Mirror polls of early 1975 voted "Everyday" in the top ten singles poll.

Everyday (film)

Everyday is a 2012 British drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom. Known during its lengthy production variously as Seven Days and then Here and There, the film stars John Simm as a man named Ian, imprisoned for drug smuggling and charts his relationship with his wife Karen, played by Shirley Henderson.

Written by Winterbottom and Laurence Coriat, the film was shot a few weeks at a time over a five-year period from 2007 to 2012 to reflect the protagonist's time in prison and achieve an authentic aging process. Everyday premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 3 September 2012 and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2012. The film was produced by Britain's Channel 4 and premiered in the UK on television on 15 November 2012, later released theatrically on 18 January 2013. At the Stockholm International Film Festival in November the film was awarded the FIPRESCI-Award.

Everyday (Toby Lightman song)

"Everyday" is a song by written and performed by Toby Lightman, issued as the second single from her debut studio album Little Things. The song was used during the sixth season of the FOX television series Bones, in the episode "The Couple in the Cave".

Everyday (ASAP Rocky song)

"Everyday" is a song by American hip hop recording artist ASAP Rocky. It was released on May 8, 2015, as the second single from his second studio album At. Long. Last. ASAP (2015), to make up for the delay of the album. The song, co-produced by Mark Ronson alongside a sample appearance from " In a Broken Dream" by Python Lee Jackson (featuring vocals from Rod Stewart), also features singer Miguel. On May 8, 2015, the song was officially released to radio. Rolling Stone ranked "Everyday" at number 38 on its annual year-end list to find the best songs of 2015.

Usage examples of "everyday".

For Alice comes from and alone represents the everyday world of her readers, which, for the sake of their existence as well as hers, must appear sane.

In yet other cases carbon dioxide transports the subject to the Other World at the antipodes of his everyday consciousness, and he enjoys very briefly visionary experiences entirely unconnected with his own personal history or with the problems of the human race in general.

In everyday usage, avidya is sometimes called both sin and ignorance, but these pejorative terms hide the essence of the truth, which is that all such obstacles exist in consciousness and can be cleared away.

My dear wife puts up with me, you know, but even after all these years she would as soon drink ordinary everyday Beaujolais or an undemanding Mosel.

While his squire, Bruno, pulled off the boots and turned them over to a waiting slave to be cleaned and repolished, then fetched the other pair of everyday boots from the clothespress, Don Guillermo was thinking.

From time to time the Maharishi would organise day trips to Dehra Dun or other nearby towns in order that the meditators did not get too cut off from everyday reality, though usually they would make their own arrangements.

The first Aemilia who was ever a Vestal was wise enough to know that the everyday tasks, tending the sacred fire and carrying all of our water from the wellit was the Fountain of Egeria in those days, admittedly a lot farther away than Juturnawere not enough to keep our minds busy and our intentions and our vows pure.

Fools went back to the everyday life they had so often mocked: Fools bought clothes, bore children, voted in school board elections.

Amelia, the gentlest and sweetest of everyday mortals, when she found this meddling with her maternal authority, thrilled and trembled all over with anger.

The everyday conversational of Art is now the tenebrous chatty-talk of academics and goony writers like me.

The tendril is an everyday hybridoma of liana, earthworm, and slime mold.

He looked too normal, too ordinary, too everyday to supply the services Kusum had been told about.

Were not this thing of everyday occurrence in Morocco, and had I not examined scores of such papers, the way in which the ignorant Moors fall into such traps would seem incredible.

Stationeri had been particularly upset about common, everyday nomes learning to read.

Were it so, the festival would have no meaning, for what else is it but the ultimate negation of all the petty nonfulfillments of humdrum, everyday life?