Dictionary Entry
ordinary
ordinary is a 8-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
- 2adjective
Common; customary; usual.
- 3adjective
Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
- 4noun
An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
- 5noun
One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
- 6noun
A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
- 7noun
The mass; the common run.
- 8noun
That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
- 9noun
Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
- 10noun
A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
- 11noun
A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
- 12noun
(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
- 13noun
an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- 14noun
a judge of a probate court
- 15noun
a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
- 16noun
the expected or commonplace condition or situation
"not out of the ordinary"
- 17adjective
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
"average people"
"the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
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- 18adjective
not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
"ordinary everyday objects"
"ordinary decency"
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