everyday

Etymology

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

adj

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
   Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe. 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42

adv

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

noun

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.
   Then you came in. I heard your rumbling voice Out in the kitchen , and I don't know why , But I went near to see with my own eyes . You could sit there with the stains on your shoes Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave And talk about your everyday concerns.[…] 2003, Robert Pack, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Middlebury College press), UPNE, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110