normal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Usual, ordinary, or expected; not strange or surprising.

   It is normal to feel nervous before an exam.

2. 2
   adj

   Healthy and feeling like yourself; not ill.

   After a few days of rest, John felt normal again.

3. 3
   noun

   The usual or expected state of things.

   I was quite ill for a while, but I've now returned to normal.

Common collocations

• normal distribution Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōrmālisder. English normal From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people beg…

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