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Ordinary   /ˈɔrdənˌɛri/   Listen
Ordinary

adjective
1.
Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.  "Ordinary decency" , "An ordinary day" , "An ordinary wine"
2.
Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.  Synonym: average.  "The ordinary (or common) man in the street"
noun
(pl. ordinaries)
1.
A judge of a probate court.
2.
The expected or commonplace condition or situation.
3.
A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.
4.
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.  Synonym: ordinary bicycle.
5.
(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields.



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... same thought w'ich came to me, jes' lak I'm tellin' it to you," agreed Cump. "It teks a musician to think of things w'ich an ordinary pusson wouldn't never dream of. So, fur the las' hour or so I been castin' about in my mind an' jes' a minute ago the idee come to me. I feels shore I kin arrange wid a frien' of mine to he'p us out. I s'pose you is acquainted with this yere ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... ordinary wooden sofa covered with a thin veneer. This veneer had come unloosened in many places and was split up. It had now a number of small mounds. And the upper layer of the veneer which had come unloosened ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... all these prostitutes belonged. Among this whole order, we saw few persons above the middle size, and many below it; an observation which confirms what M. de Buffon has very judiciously said on the subject of early connections of the sexes. Their features were very irregular, and, in general, very ordinary, except the eyes, which were always large and full of vivacity; but a natural smile, and a constant endeavour to please, had so well supplied the want of beauty, that our sailors were perfectly captivated, and carelessly disposed of their shirts and clothes, to gratify their ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr
... that a gallant action, Drummond, if you don't. It is no joke for one man to tackle six, and those not ordinary marauders but Pomeranian soldiers. Of course, it was somewhat lucky that you had rid yourself of three of them, before the other three entered the room; and had it not been, as you say, for that girl, things might have turned out ...
— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty
... after sunrise, and that in an ordinary way I ought to have jumped up, but the sleepy, stupid feeling was too much for me, and I only ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn


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