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Meaning of "ordinary" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORDINARY

(Adj) and C13: (some n senses): ultimately from Latin ordinārius orderly, from ordō order.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ORDINARY

ordinary  [ˈɔːdənrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORDINARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ordinary can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ORDINARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ordinary

Ordinary may refer to: ▪ Ordinary, a simple geometrical figure displayed on a shield ▪ Ordinary, a type of lecture given in universities of the Middle Ages ▪ Ordinary, a set of texts in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies that are generally invariable ▪ Ordinary, an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws ▪ "Ordinary" ▪ "Ordinary" ▪ Ordinary, a Malayalam-language film...

Definition of ordinary in the English dictionary

The first definition of ordinary in the dictionary is of common or established type or occurrence. Other definition of ordinary is familiar, everyday, or unexceptional. Ordinary is also uninteresting or commonplace.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORDINARY


aldermanry
ˈɔːldəmənrɪ
almonry
ˈɑːmənrɪ
archdeaconry
ˈɑːtʃˈdiːkənrɪ
blazonry
ˈbleɪzənrɪ
citizenry
ˈsɪtɪzənrɪ
emblazonry
ɪmˈbleɪzənrɪ
extraordinary
ɪkˈstrɔːdənrɪ
falconry
ˈfɔːlkənrɪ
felonry
ˈfɛlənrɪ
freemasonry
ˈfriːˌmeɪsənrɪ
heathenry
ˈhiːðənrɪ
heronry
ˈhɛrənrɪ
masonry
ˈmeɪsənrɪ
sokemanry
ˈsəʊkmənrɪ
stonemasonry
ˈstəʊnˌmeɪsənrɪ
subdeaconry
ˈsʌbˌdiːkənrɪ
unextraordinary
ˌʌnɪkˈstrɔːdənrɪ
wardenry
ˈwɔːdənrɪ
weaponry
ˈwɛpənrɪ
yeomanry
ˈjəʊmənrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORDINARY

ordinal
ordinal number
ordinal scale
ordinally
ordinance
ordinand
ordinant
ordinaries
ordinarily
ordinariness
ordinary degree
Ordinary grade
ordinary lay
Ordinary level
Ordinary National Certificate
Ordinary National Diploma
ordinary rating
ordinary ray
ordinary seaman
ordinary shares

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORDINARY

ambassador extraordinary
binary
cross-disciplinary
culinary
dictionary
disciplinary
genitourinary
imaginary
in ordinary
interdisciplinary
luminary
multidisciplinary
nonbinary
out of the ordinary
preliminary
quinary
seminary
trinary
unordinary
urinary
veterinary

Synonyms and antonyms of ordinary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ORDINARY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ordinary» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ordinary

Translation of «ordinary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORDINARY

Find out the translation of ordinary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ordinary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ordinary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

普通的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corriente
570 millions of speakers

English

ordinary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साधारण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَادِيٌّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обычный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

comum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ordinaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

biasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gewöhnlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

普通の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보통의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biasa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bình thường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சாதாரண
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामान्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıradan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ordinario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zwykły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

звичайний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obișnuit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνηθισμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gewone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vanlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hverdagslig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ordinary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORDINARY»

The term «ordinary» is very widely used and occupies the 7.718 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORDINARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ordinary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ordinary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ordinary

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10 QUOTES WITH «ORDINARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ordinary.
1
Sarah Addison Allen
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.
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Steve Aoki
The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.
3
Eve Arnold
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
4
Augustine Birrell
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
5
Pam Brown
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
6
Bryan Burrough
I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
7
Lee Byung-hun
Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.
8
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
9
Michael Crichton
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
10
Aleister Crowley
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORDINARY»

Discover the use of ordinary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ordinary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ordinary People
GUEST/ORDINARY PEOPLE
Judith Guest, 1982
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Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough
Ordinary is the belief that this is as good as it will ever get. And when we begin to settle for ordinary, it’s easy to move from “I do” to “I’m done.” Justin and Trisha Davis know just how dangerous ordinary can be.
Justin Davis, Trisha Davis, 2012
3
Ordinary Men
The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
Christopher R. Browning, 2013
4
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home ...
Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2008
5
A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations
Stressing applications wherever possible, the authors have written this text with the applied math, engineer, or science major in mind. It includes a number of modern topics that are not commonly found in a traditional sophomore-level text.
Randall J. Swift, Stephen A. Wirkus, 2006
6
Ordinary Affects
DIVA creatively written ethnography tracking between intimate, everyday feeling and larger collective cultural forces in the contemporary U.S./div "Anything but ordinary, this book rewrites the social sciences from top to bottom through its ...
Kathleen Stewart, 2007
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Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass ...
With this second edition, James Waller brings us up to date on some of the horrific events he used in the first edition to illustrate his theory of extraordinary human evil, particularly those from the perennially troubled Balkans and ...
James E. Waller, 2007
8
Scientific Computing with Ordinary Differential Equations
Provides an introduction to the mathematical and numerical aspects of discretization methods for solving initial value problems in ordinary differential equations. This work is useful for a graduate course in numerical analysis of ODEs.
Peter Deuflhard, Folkmar Bornemann, 2002
9
Ordinary Differential Equations
Among the topics covered in this classic treatment are linear differential equations; solution in an infinite form; solution by definite integrals; algebraic theory; Sturmian theory and its later developments; further developments in the ...
Edward L. Ince, 1956
10
Asymptotic Expansions for Ordinary Differential Equations
In this outstanding text, the first book devoted exclusively to the subject, the author concentrates on the mathematical ideas underlying the various asymptotic methods; however, asymptotic methods for differential equations are included ...
Wolfgang Wasow, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORDINARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ordinary is used in the context of the following news items.
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Overhauls and the ordinary: 2013 goes down in Vatican history
11 says the pope held an ordinary public consistory at 11 a.m. concerning the canonization of new saints. After listing the soon-to-be saints, the ... «National Catholic Reporter, Jul 15»
2
Ordinary borrowers aren't to blame
It was systemic fraud, not ordinary citizens looking to buy a home. Schick is right; they should go to jail. LESLIE ECK. Bexley. Favorite; Print ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
3
New Haven's Ordinary bar makes list of top 30 bars in world
It's located in the same spot where the former Richters operated for nearly 20 years before closing in 2011. If you want to check out the entire ... «WFSB, Jul 15»
4
Insights: Ordinary actions made extraordinary by power of Jesus' love
Very ordinary actions made extraordinary in the power of Jesus' love! Do not despise the day of steady steps and small loving acts, for it is in ... «Montana Standard, Jul 15»
5
In pursuit of simplicity, a love less ordinary
In pursuit of simplicity, a love less ordinary. Film Imroz provides insights into the life of Inderjeet, a man who stood steadfast and constant in his ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
6
Dublin, Antrim and the RUC - a hurling life less ordinary
When Michael O'Grady insists the transformation of Dublin hurling is "beyond his wildest dreams" it means something. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
7
Spotlight: The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary At Orlando's …
We use cardboard to help us move, pack and ship things to each other. But this weekend cardboard is the medium of choice for artists ... «WMFE, Jul 15»
8
Analysts Give Average Recommendation of "Strong Buy" to Energy …
Energy Fuels Inc Ordinary Shares (Canada) logo Energy Fuels Inc Ordinary Shares (Canada) (NASDAQ:UUUU) has received an average ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
9
Young designers bring the 'Extra Ordinary' to The Aram Gallery
The Aram Gallery in London has unveiled its latest show, 'Extra Ordinary', which brings together 14 young designers who have found ... «wallpaper.com, Jul 15»
10
China buzz: This isn't your ordinary kind of football
This isn't your ordinary world cup. Have you ever seen a football game in which competitors play bare-footed, not in a grass court but a mud ... «CCTV, Jul 15»

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