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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordinary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Ordinary, ordinary, the ordinary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ordinary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ordinary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ordinary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ordinary, ordinary: Wordnik
  7. ordinary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ordinary, ordinary: Wiktionary
  9. ordinary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ordinary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ordinary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ordinary: Dictionary.com
  13. ordinary (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ordinary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ordinary (Catholic Church), Ordinary (EP), Ordinary (church officer), Ordinary (disambiguation), Ordinary (film), Ordinary (heraldry), Ordinary (liturgy), Ordinary (officer), Ordinary, The Ordinary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ordinary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ordinary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ordinary: Rhymezone
  19. ordinary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ordinary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Ordinary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ordinary: Free Dictionary
  23. ordinary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The Ordinary, ordinary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ordinary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Ordinary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ordinary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. ordinary: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. The Ordinary, ordinary: Legal dictionary
  7. Ordinary, The Ordinary: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ordinary, ordinary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. ordinary: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordinary: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordinary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ordinary: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordinary: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
noun:  (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
noun:  (obsolete) A courier; someone delivering mail or post.
noun:  (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
noun:  (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
noun:  Something ordinary or regular.
noun:  (obsolete) Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food; (hence) a regular portion or allowance.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
noun:  (now archaic, historical) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
noun:  (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
noun:  An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
noun:  (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
noun:  (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
noun:  (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
noun:  A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
noun:  (obsolete) A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
noun:  (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
adjective:  (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
adjective:  Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
adjective:  Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
noun:  The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day
noun:  (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”) [The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day]

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