1
- with no special or distinctive features; normal平常的, 普通的; 正常的：
he sets out to depict ordinary people
他开始描写平民百姓
it was just an ordinary evening.
这只是一个平常的夜晚。
1.1
- uninteresting; commonplace平淡的, 寻常的：
she seemed very ordinary.
她看上去十分寻常。
2
- (especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation（尤指法官、主教）常任的, 本身有权的。
(pl. -ies)
1
- (the ordinary) what is commonplace or standard常见事物; 标准事物：
their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary.
他们的陈词滥调带有足够的情感色彩从而要比寻常的套话略胜一筹。
2
- Law, Brit. a person, especially a judge, exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation【律】〈英〉常任法官（无须指派便可依权审案）。
3
the Ordinary
an archbishop in a province管区长, 教区长。
3.1
- a bishop in a diocese教区的主教。
4
- （常作Ordinary）those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day（罗马天主教）常规弥撒（弥撒经文中每天不变的部分）。
4.1
- a rule or book laying down the order of divine service礼拜式规程书典。
5
- Heraldry any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire)【纹章】普通图记（尤指上段、垂直宽条、对角条纹、中带、横条纹、人字形图记、十字架形、X形）。
6
- short for ORDINARY SHARE.ORDINARY SHARE的简称。
7
- Brit. archaic a meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn〈英, 古〉（小旅馆中时间价格固定的）客饭。
7.1
- an inn providing this（提供上述客饭的）小旅馆。
8
- historical, chiefly US an early type of bicycle with one large and one very small wheel; a penny-farthing〈史, 主美〉（前轮大后轮小的）老式自行车。
短语
in ordinary
- Brit. (in titles) by permanent appointment, especially to the royal household〈英〉（头衔）常任的（尤指皇家御用的）：
painter in ordinary to Her Majesty.
女王陛下的御用画家。
in the ordinary way
- chiefly Brit. if the circumstances are or were not exceptional; normally〈主英〉通常地; 正常地, 平常地。
out of the ordinary
- unusual不寻常的; 特别的：
nothing out of the ordinary happened.
没有任何异常情况发生。
派生词
ordinariness
noun词源
late Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius 'orderly' （reinforced by French ordinaire）, from ordo, ordin- 'order'.