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Ordinary

ˈɔːdɪn(ə)ri

Ordinary definitions

adjective

Inflections:

ordinary

with no special or distinctive features; normal

"he sets out to depict ordinary people"

Synonyms:
usual normal standard typical stock common customary habitual accustomed expected wonted everyday regular routine day-to-day daily established settled set fixed traditional quotidian prevailing
- not interesting or exceptional; commonplace
  
  "she seemed very ordinary"
(especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation

noun

Inflections:

ordinaries ordinary

what is commonplace or standard

"their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary"
a judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation
a member of the clergy, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction
those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day
- a rule or book laying down the order of divine service
any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire)
a meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn
- an inn providing a meal at a fixed time and price
a penny-farthing bicycle