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Everyday

adjective

Found in the ordinary course of events. Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday. "It was a routine day" , "There's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"

Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions. Synonyms: casual, daily. "Everyday clothes"

Commonplace and ordinary.

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"Everyday" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the willow bows and seek solace for the sorrows of the long exile in recalling the loved melody of their native land, and the sacred psalmody of their desolated temple" (McClintock and Strong). There was hardly an occasion arising above the commonplace events of everyday life, when the ancient Hebrews did not resort to music. Trumpets were used at the royal proclamations and at the dedication of the Temple. There were doleful chants for funeral processions; joyous melodies for bridal processions and banquets; stirring martial strains to incite courage in battle ...

— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck

... respectable; for this it gets up in the mass at six a.m., winter and summer, and goes to bed when the public-houses close; for this it exists—that you may drink tea out of a teacup and toy with a chop on a plate. All the everyday crockery used in the kingdom is made in the Five Towns—all, and much besides. A district capable of such gigantic manufacture, of such a perfect monopoly—and which finds energy also to produce coal and iron and great men— may be an insignificant stain on a county, ...

— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... that her husband had gone, never to return to her again. It did not strike her as strange. She took it as naturally as any other incident of everyday life-so dry and apathetic had her mind become during the last few moments. Only the world and love seemed to her as a void and make-believe from beginning to end. Even the memory of the protestations of love, which her husband had made to her in days past, brought to her ...

— The Hungry Stones And Other Stories • Rabindranath Tagore

... occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas. All Hallowe'en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries. All superstitions, everyday ones, and those pertaining to Christmas and New Year's, have ...

— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley

... I think you will like some day, when you are older, even if you cannot quite understand it now. Those who go through life with a pleasant smile and a kind word make many friends, and are always welcome visitors. Sympathy and helpfulness may be very everyday virtues, but they are worth cultivating just as much as French and mathematics, and I am sure all your companions will join with me in saying, ...

— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

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