quotidian |
American Heritage Dictionary (2 definitions)
- Everyday; commonplace: "There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute” (Anita Diamant).
- Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.
–adjective
Century Dictionary (4 definitions)
- Payment given for such duty.
- Something that returns or is expected every day; specifically, in medicine, a fever whose paroxysms return every day.
- A cleric or church officer who does daily duty.
- Daily; occurring or returning daily: as, a quotidian fever.
–noun
GNU Webster's 1913 (2 definitions)
WordNet (1 definition)
Elsewhere on the web
View all » Examples
Eschewing literary subjects for motifs that were purely visual, Renoir also began to paint half-length views of solitary women engaged in quotidian pursuits, and a long wall is devoted to these intimate, tranquil canvases.
Over time, I've come to see that every little bit of reportage, no matter how quotidian, is a small act of betrayal.
Everything that should be precise, matter-of-fact and quotidian is made slightly larger, and falser, than life.
Whether bemoaning his generation's suffocating overprotection of children or debating whether or not to circumcise his son (prompting a snortingly funny but quite apt comparison to the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chabon's ease with Technicolorizing the quotidian is formidable and reminiscent of Stephen King.
—VQR
Record your own »
Pronunciations
/ (kwō-tĭdˈē-ən)/
ahd pronounces "quotidian"
by
American Heritage Dictionary
On Twitter
Etymology
American Heritage Dictionary (1)
-
Middle English cotidien, from Old French, from Latin quōtīdiānus, from quōtīdiē, each day : quot, how many, as many as; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + diē, ablative of diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.
Century Dictionary
Stats
Quotidian has been looked up 1,040 times, favorited 17 times, listed 177 times, commented on 8 times, and has a Scrabble score of 19.