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mundane

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mundane  \Mun"dane\,  a.  [L.  mundanus  fr  mundus  the  world,  an 
  implement,  toilet  adornments,  or  dress;  cf  mundus,  a., 
  clean,  neat,  Skr.  ma[.n][dsdot]  to  adorn,  dress, 
  ma[.n][dsdot]a  adornment.  Cf  {Monde},  {Mound}  in  heraldry.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  world;  worldly;  earthly;  terrestrial; 
  as  the  mundane  sphere.  --  {Mun"dane*ly},  adv 
 
  The  defilement  of  mundane  passions.  --I.  Taylor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mundane 
  adj  1:  found  in  the  ordinary  course  of  events;  "a  placid  everyday 
  scene";  "it  was  a  routine  day";  "there's  nothing  quite 
  like  a  real...train  conductor  to  add  color  to  a 
  quotidian  commute"-  Anita  Diamant  [syn:  {everyday},  {quotidian}, 
  {routine},  {unremarkable},  {workaday}] 
  2:  concerned  with  the  world  or  worldly  matters;  "mundane 
  affairs";  "he  developed  an  immense  terrestrial 
  practicality"  [syn:  {terrestrial}] 
  3:  belonging  to  this  earth  or  world;  not  ideal  or  heavenly; 
  "not  a  fairy  palace;  yet  a  mundane  wonder  of  unimagined 
  kind";  "so  terrene  a  being  as  himself"  [syn:  {terrene}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  mundane  n.  [from  SF  fandom]  1.  A  person  who  is  not  in  science 
  fiction  fandom.  2.  A  person  who  is  not  in  the  computer  industry. 
  In  this  sense  most  often  an  adjectival  modifier  as  in  "in  my  mundane 
  life...."  See  also  {Real  World},  {muggle}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  mundane 
 
    Someone  outside  some  group  that  is  implicit  from  the 
  context,  such  as  the  computer  industry  or  science  fiction 
  fandom.  The  implication  is  that  those  in  the  group  are 
  special  and  those  outside  are  just  ordinary. 
 
  (2000-07-22)




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