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Mundane

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mun⋅dane

  [muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn]
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–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

Related forms:
mun⋅dane⋅ly, adverb
mun⋅dane⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. secular, temporal. See earthly.
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mun·dane   (mŭn-dān', mŭn'dān')   
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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Word Origin & History

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.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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