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  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)
       
       

  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.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with
        heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere;
        mundane concerns. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The defilement of mundane passions.   --I. Taylor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal.
        [PJC]

  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.
  
  

  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.

  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]

  mundane
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 μονότονος, ανιαρός
     2 συνηθισμένος, κοινότυπος

  mundane
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la mundānus  voc m s)

  mundane
     a.
     1 worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
     2 Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed
  to the spiritual world.
     3 ordinary; not new.
     4 tedious; repetitive and boring.
     n.
     1 An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
     2 (lb en slang derogatory in various subcultures) A person considered
  to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the
  subculture, not part of the elite group.

  mundane
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la mundānus  voc m s)

  mundane
     Latin a.
     (inflection of la mundānus  voc m s)

  mundane
     Englanti a.
     1 maallinen (ei hengellinen t. taivaallinen)
     2 tavallinen, jokapäiväinen
     3 tylsä, pitkästyttävä
     Englanti n.
     tavallinen tallaaja

  mundane
     Engelska a.
     1 jordisk, världslig
     2 vardaglig, trivial

  Mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  دنيوي

  mundane //mʌnˈdeɪn// 
  1. обикновен
  ordinary
  2. светски
  worldly

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/ 
  pozemský

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/ 
  světský

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  alltäglich, profan 

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  sachlich-nüchtern, prosaisch 

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  weltlich, irdisch , Welt…
   see: mundane poetry
  

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  
  τετριμμένος, κοσμικός

  mundane //mʌnˈdeɪn// 
  1. tavallinen, tavanomainen
  ordinary
  2. ikävä, tylsä
  tedious
  3. maallinen
  worldly

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/ 
  1. सांसरिक, ऐहिक
        "Rekha leads a very mundane life."

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  svjetski, zemaljski

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  1. evilági
  2. földi

  mundane //mʌnˈdeɪn// 
  1. alminnelig, repeterende
  ordinary
  2. kjedelig
  tedious
  3. verdslig
  worldly

  mundane /ˌmʌnˈdeɪn/ 
    przyziemny

  mundane //mʌnˈdeɪn// 
  världslig
  worldly

  mundane /mʌndˈeɪn/
  1. günlük, olağan, sıradan
  2. dünyaya ait, dünyevi.

  
/mənˈdeɪn/

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mundane":
     Philistine, animal, arid, banausic, barren, carnal, carnal-minded,
     common, commonplace, dry, dull, earthbound, earthly, earthy,
     everyday, flat, fleshly, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid,
     literal, lowly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, nonsacred,
     ordinary, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, profane, prosaic, prosing,
     prosy, reprobate, secular, sensual, staid, stolid, stuffy,
     tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tiresome,
     unblessed, unembellished, unfanciful, unhallowed, unholy, unideal,
     unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired,
     uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unregenerate, unromantic,
     unromanticized, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, vapid,
     workaday, workday, worldly
  
  

  a. 现世的,世俗的,宇宙的;

     a. 现世的,世俗的,宇宙的