different between daily vs commonplace

English

Alternative forms

• dayly (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?li, IPA^(key): /?de?li/
• Rhymes: -e?li

Etymology 1

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæ?l??, from Proto-Germanic *dagal?kaz (“daily”), equivalent to day +? -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Adjective

daily (not comparable)

1. That occurs every day, or at least every working day
   • 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan

     Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
2. diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

Synonyms

• journal (obsolete)
• quotidian

Derived terms

• daily bread
• daily double

Translations

Noun

daily (plural dailies)

1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
   1. A newspaper that is published every day.
   2. (Britain) A cleaner who comes in daily.
   3. (Britain, slang) A daily disposable.
   4. (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
   5. (US, automotive, colloquial) A daily driver.

Synonyms

• (cleaner who comes daily): daily help, daily maid (woman only)
• (newspaper published every day): daily paper

Translations

Verb

daily

1. (US, automotive, colloquial) To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæ?l??e (found only as dæ?hw?ml??e), equivalent to day +? -ly.

Adverb

daily (not comparable)

1. quotidianly, every day
2. diurnally, by daylight

Translations

See also

• annual
• everyday
• hebdomadal
• monthly
• nightly
• quotidian
• weekly
• yearly

Anagrams

• Lydia, lydia, ylaid

English

Etymology

A calque of Latin locus comm?nis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ?????? ????? (koinòs tópos).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?ple?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?ple?s/
• Hyphenation: com?mon?place

Adjective

commonplace (comparative more commonplace, superlative most commonplace)

1. Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.

   Synonyms: routine, undistinguished, unexceptional; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed

   Antonyms: distinguished, inimitable, unique

Translations

Noun

commonplace (plural commonplaces)

1. A platitude or cliché.
2. Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
3. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
   • 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit

     Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.

4. A commonplace book.

Translations

Verb

commonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)

1. To make a commonplace book.
2. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
   • 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics

     I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […] historians.

3. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Related terms

• commonplace book