Meaning

14 senses
  1. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

    A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.

  2. A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.

  3. (historical)The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.

    a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

  4. Something ordinary or regular.

    (historical)A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.

  5. One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.

    Heroldsbild

  6. An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.

  7. (Ireland, Scotland)The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.

  8. (historical)A penny farthing bicycle.

  9. A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.

  10. A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.

    (especially)A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.

  11. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

    (obsolete)A courier; someone delivering mail or post.

  12. Something ordinary or regular.

    (obsolete)Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food; (hence) a regular portion or allowance.

Examples

316 sentences
  1. He's just an ordinary office worker.

    Він звичайний офісний працівник.

    ruОн - простой офисный служащий.

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  2. Tom is an ordinary-looking guy.

    У Тома пересічна зовнішність.

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  3. I don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen.

    Я не очікую, що трапиться щось незвичайне.

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  4. Tom is just an ordinary man.

    Том усього-навсього пересічний чоловік.

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  5. He's just an ordinary student.

    Він просто звичайний студент.

    ruОн просто обычный студент.

    deEr ist nur ein gewöhnlicher Schüler.

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
standard geometric design in heraldics:

Origin

From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source,

From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).

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Forms

plural: ordinaries
Singularordinary
Pluralordinaries

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel:ordinary bicycle

Collocations

9 patterns
  • of the ordinary
  • an an ordinary
  • the ordinary happened
  • is no ordinary
  • an ordinary man
  • ordinary happened
  • no ordinary
  • ordinary man
  • ordinary guy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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