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US
/ˈɔɹdəˌnɛɹi/
]
[ UK /ˈɔːdɪnəɹi/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔːdɪnəɹi/ ]
NOUN
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the expected or commonplace condition or situation
not out of the ordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
- a judge of a probate court
- an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
ADJECTIVE
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not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
an ordinary day
an ordinary wine
ordinary decency
ordinary everyday objects -
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
the ordinary (or common) man in the street
average people
How To Use ordinary In A Sentence
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
- The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
- There are those additional requirements in respect of residence and ordinary residence.
- LONDON, February 4/PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc ( "RDS") today announced an interim dividend in respect of the fourth quarter of 2009 of US$0. 42 per A and B ordinary share, an increase of 5% over the US dollar dividend for the same quarter last year. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- What can you do with a machine that puts letters and numbers on an ordinary unmodified TV set?
- Although the race, the last on the card, was a fairly ordinary event, it had great significance for Oliver, who was warmly greeted by racegoers.
- The second is the gender division of work, she says, looking at the larger issue of why first generation schoolgoers in particular require an extraordinary amount of care and attention.
- She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
- Ratzinger exercised extraordinary ‘thought-control’ in deciding which works of theologians were orthodox and which were verboten.