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mun·dane    Audio Help   [muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly: mundane affairs.
2.common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
3.of or pertaining to the world, universe, or earth.

[Origin: 1425–75; < L mundānus, equiv. to mund(us) world + -ānus -ane; r. late ME mondeyne < MF mondain < L, as above]

mun·dane·ly, adverb
mun·dane·ness, noun

1. secular, temporal. See earthly.
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mun·dane    Audio Help   (mŭn-dān', mŭn'dān')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.
  2. Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.


[Middle English mondeine, from Old French mondain, from Latin mundānus, from mundus, world.]

mun·dane'ly adv., mun·dane'ness, mun·dan'i·ty (-dān'ĭ-tē) n.
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mundane 
1475, from M.Fr. mondain (12c.), from L. mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), from mundus "universe, world," lit. "clean, elegant"; used as a transl. of Gk. khosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Gk. word was "orderly arrangement"). L. mundus also was used of a woman's "ornaments, dress," and is related to the adj. mundus "clean, elegant" (used of women's dress, etc.).

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mundane

adjective
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
2. concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" 
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" 

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

mundane jargon
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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Mundane

Monde\ (m[^o]Nd), n. [F. See Mundane.] The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] --A. Drummond.

Le beau monde [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde.

Demi monde. See Demimonde.
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