word-vault/dist/data/cards/or/ordinary.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "ordinary",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not unusual or different in any way",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an ordinary sort of day"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the ordinary course of events"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**ordinary people** like you and me"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was no ordinary meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a perfectly ordinary little girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are just ordinary working folk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I lead a very ordinary life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was, for most ordinary citizens, a time of prosperity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She doubted that, in ordinary circumstances, the two would have got on well together."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The images can be printed on ordinary paper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These plates are for ordinary, everyday use."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were an ordinary family."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["very", "perfectly", "quite"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having no unusual or interesting features",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The meal was very ordinary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wines produced were at best very ordinary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had an ordinary sort of face."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["very", "perfectly", "quite"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say what normally happens in a particular situation",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In the ordinary way, she's not a nervous person."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "unusual or different",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm looking for something a little more out of the ordinary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His behaviour was nothing out of the ordinary *(= not unusual)*."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːdnri/",
                "audio": "or/ordinary/ordinary__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːrdneri/",
                "audio": "or/ordinary/ordinary__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius ‘orderly’ (reinforced by French ordinaire), from ordo, ordin- ‘order’."
}