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everyday (adj.)

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.

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Definitions of everyday from WordNet

everyday (adj.)
found in the ordinary course of events; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant;
a placid everyday scene
everyday (adj.)
appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions;
everyday clothes
Synonyms: casual / daily
everyday (adj.)
commonplace and ordinary;
the familiar everyday world
From wordnet.princeton.edu