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quotidian

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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quo·tid·i·an /kwəʊˈtɪdiən $ kwoʊ-/ adjective literary  TMCordinary, and happening every day 普通的,寻常的
Examples from the Corpus
quotidianLike the last scene of Uncle Vanya, all that was left was the bleakly quotidian.There are quotidian bumps and creases and noteworthy spills all along the way that need attention.They possess the concreteness of imaginative, spiritual experience rather than the concreteness of quotidian reality.Quickly they piled into the car, which sped noisily and dangerously off through the quotidian traffic.
Origin quotidian (1300-1400) Old French cotidian, from Latin quotidianus, from quotidie every day
quo·tid·i·an adjectiveChineseSyllable
day every and ordinary, happening Corpus


quotidian
quotidian /kwəʊˈtɪdiən $ kwoʊ-/ adjective literary
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: cotidian, from Latin quotidianus, from quotidie 'every day'
ordinary, and happening every day


quo·tid·ianBrE /kwɒˈtɪdiən/ 🔊, /kwəʊˈtɪdiən/ 🔊NAmE /kwoʊˈtɪdiən/ 🔊 adjective (formal) ordinary; typical of what happens every day 寻常的;普通的;司空见惯的 SYN day-to-day