Everyday Meaning
/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjAppropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
adjCommonplace, ordinary.
Sentence Examples
In everyday life we have many obligations and responsibilities.
Because it is politics that has caused this war, making the war our everyday reality.
Change is a part of everyday life in business.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Wearing a uniform is an ____ occurrence at this school.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She wore her ____ clothes to the market, saving her best dress for the evening party.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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.[…]"
— 2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press), UPNE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
"By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to “remigrate” millions of everyday people out of America."
— 2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025:
"For Everyday Recording / For example: Programme time for timer recording every day from 20:00–22:45 on timer programme number 7. Programming for everyday recording can be made on any of the timer programme numbers 1–7. […] For Everyweek Recording / For Example: Programming a timer recording for a TV programme that is broadcast every week on Sunday, from 20:00 to 22:45."
— [1987], “Timer Recording”, in Operating Instructions: Video Cassette Recorder, NV-G25 Series, Central Osaka: Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd., page 21:
"“What kind of place do you live in! Every time we turn around, somebody else is getting killed!” / “Believe me, it’s not an everyday occurrence.” An everyweek occurrence lately, however."
— 1993, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Cast (The Beeler Large Print Mystery Series), Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, published 1999, →ISBN, page 207:
"It’s not an everyday, or even an everyweek, event, but nowadays you can sometimes see young couples kissing goodbye at street corners and train stations."
— 1994 November 9, T[homas] R[oy] Reid, “Some Japanese Kiss in Public; Their Elders Are Shocked . . . Shocked!”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer; reprinted in Mark Hutter, “[Mate Selection] Mate Selection in Feudal and Contemporary Japan”, in The Changing Family, 3rd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, →ISBN, page 268, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Wearing a uniform is an ____ occurrence at this school.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She wore her ____ clothes to the market, saving her best dress for the evening party.