Definitions for ordinary
ˈɔr dnˌɛr ior·di·nary

Princeton's WordNet(3.17 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ordinary(noun)

   a judge of a probate court

2. ordinary(noun)

   the expected or commonplace condition or situation

   "not out of the ordinary"

3. ordinary(noun)

   a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

4. ordinary, ordinary bicycle(noun)

   an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

5. ordinary(adj)

   (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

6. ordinary(adj)

   not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

   "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

7. average, ordinary(adj)

   lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

   "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ordinary(Noun)

   A devotional manual.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

2. ordinary(Noun)

   A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

3. ordinary(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

4. ordinary(Noun)

   A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

5. ordinary(Noun)

   A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

6. ordinary(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

7. ordinary(Noun)

   An ordinary thing or person.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

8. ordinary(Noun)

   A penny-farthing bicycle.

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

9. ordinary(Adjective)

   Having regular jurisdiction (of a judge; now only used in certain phrases).

   Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

10. ordinary(Adjective)

    Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

    On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.

    Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

11. ordinary(Adjective)

    Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane (often deprecatory).

    Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

12. ordinary(Adjective)

    Bad or undesirable.

    Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

13. Ordinary(Noun)

    The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day

    Etymology: From ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from ordinarius, from ordo.

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1. Ordinary

   An ordinary is an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws. Such officers are found in hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system. In the Episcopal Church, for example, an ordinary is a diocesan bishop. In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch. Within civic governance, notably in the southern United States, the role of the county ordinary historically involved the discharge of certain, often legal or legally related, tasks falling to city or county authorities, such as licensing marriages and adjudicating claims against an authority.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Ordinary

   or′di-na-ri, adj. according to the common order: usual: of common rank: plain: of little merit: (coll.) plain-looking.—n. a judge of ecclesiastical or other causes who acts in his own right: something settled or customary: actual office: a bishop or his deputy: a place where regular meals are provided at fixed charges: the common run or mass: (her.) one of a class of armorial charges, called also honourable ordinaries, figures of simple outline and geometrical form, conventional in character—chief, pale, fess, bend, bend-sinister, chevron, cross, saltire, pile, pall, bordure, orle, tressure, canton, flanches.—adv. Or′dinarily.—Ordinary of the mass, the established sequence or fixed order for saying mass.—In ordinary, in regular and customary attendance.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ordinary

   The establishment of the persons formerly employed to take charge of the ships of war which are laid up in ordinary at several harbours adjacent to the royal dockyards. These duties are now under the superintendent of the dockyard. Also, the state of such men-of-war and vessels as are out of commission and laid up.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ordinary' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1589

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ordinary' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1339

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ordinary' in Adjectives Frequency: #182

How to pronounce ordinary?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ordinary in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ordinary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of ordinary in a Sentence

1. Amnesty International deputy director:

   What we don't need in the wake of this tragedy is another 'extraordinary' meeting that leads to a dead end. What would be truly out of the ordinary - but completely necessary - is real and concerted action.

2. The FBI:

   We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there, further, North Korea's attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States. Though the FBI has seen a wide variety and increasing number of cyber intrusions, the destructive nature of this attack, coupled with its coercive nature, sets it apart.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   No nation has done more to sustain the death and daily misery of ordinary Venezuelans, including Venezuela's military and their families, than the communists in Havana.

4. William F. Halsey:

   There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet.

5. Valentin Dolganiuc:

   Dictatorship does not sleep. It is quaking with fear, doing everything it can to stop people from all regions coming here to the capital, Chisinau, but we, tens of thousands of ordinary people, have come here to triumph and we shall.

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