different between everyday vs customary

English

Etymology

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every +? day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?i?de?/

Adjective

everyday (not comparable)

1. appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,

     When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.

2. commonplace, ordinary
   • 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:

     Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

Synonyms

• mundane
• quotidian
• routine
• unremarkable
• workaday

Translations

Adverb

everyday

1. Misspelling of every day. (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).

Usage notes

When describing the frequency of an action denoted by a verb, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour, every day, every week, etc.

Noun

everyday (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
2. (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion

   Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Everyday”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 345, column 1.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/

Noun

customary (plural customaries)

1. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

Translations

Adjective

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

1. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage

   Synonyms: conventional, habitual

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Holding or held by custom

Synonyms

• wont

Derived terms

• customarily

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customer
• customization
• customize

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