ordinary
/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ adjectif B1En français : ordinaire, quelconque
- Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
- 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.
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory. · I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.· He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.
Dans la bibliothèque
I haven’t had time to make love to you in the ordinary way, but I really do love you.
Perhaps it was caused by either the originality or the audacity of the snow-bird hunter, in thus circumventing her express commands against the ordinary modes of communication.
Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
The sum is ample for a well-considered meal, a bottle bearing a respectable label, commensurate tips, a smoke, cab fare and the ordinary etceteras.
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