Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mundane"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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