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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

当たり前のこと

Pronunciation / Transliteration: atarimae no koto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Commonplace/ˈkɒm.ən.pleɪs/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"今や海外旅行は当たり前のこととなった。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A completely ordinary, unremarkable, or everyday thing, remark, or occurrence.

    "Foreign travel has become a commonplace for many people nowadays."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not unusual; ordinary, typical, or found everywhere.

    "Smartphones are now commonplace in modern society."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin translation 'locus communis' of the Greek 'topos koinos', referring to standard themes or arguments used in rhetoric. In Middle English and Renaissance translation, it evolved into 'common place' representing widely accepted ideas, eventually merging into a single noun and adjective indicating ordinary or ubiquitous occurrences.

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