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Normal   /nˈɔrməl/   Listen
Normal

adjective
1.
Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.  "Normal diplomatic relations" , "Normal working hours" , "Normal word order" , "Normal curiosity" , "The normal course of events"
2.
In accordance with scientific laws.
3.
Being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development.  "Of normal intelligence" , "The most normal person I've ever met"
4.
Forming a right angle.
noun
1.
Something regarded as a normative example.  Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, rule.  "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"



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"Normal" Quotes from Famous Books



... any way whatever. Moreover, when it came to legislating against the mutinous labourers, King and Parliament, while sternly setting their faces against the rise in wages, do not take the twenty-third year of the King as the standard year by which to settle what the normal rate of wages should be. They go back to the twentieth year, ou cynk ou sis ans devans. That is to say, the wages had been steadily rising for ten years before the plague; the labourers had been getting ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp
... and scolded Mitty well for crying so much. And Mitty pulled herself together and began to feel that perhaps life could go on even if Burke were away for a time. Granny's scolding did her more good than all the neighbours' sympathy. It was the atmosphere of normal times, and set her back into the sanity of every ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... scientific agriculture, as drainers of fens and morasses, as clearers of forests, as makers of roads, as tillers of the reclaimed soil, as architects of durable and even stately buildings, as exhibiting a visible type of orderly government, as establishing the superiority of peace over war as the normal condition of life, as students in the library which the rule set up in every monastery, as the masters in schools open not merely to their own postulants but to the children of secular families also, that they won their high place in history ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr
... Aunt Lucile was simply funny. She melted, visibly, like a fragment left on the curb by the iceman, whenever Paula—turned the current on. What made this the more striking was that Aunt Lucile's normal mood to-day impressed Mary as rather aggressively sell-contained. Was it just that Mary had forgotten how straight she sat and how precisely she moved about? Had she always had that discreet significant ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... realized that Hester, when in her normal condition, saw things which she herself did not see. She had long since realized that Hester always accepted as final the limit of vision of the person she was with, but that that limit changed with every person she met. Rachel had seen her adjust it to persons ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley


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