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# typical

adjective (typical, more typical, most typical)

«typical» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Typical means usual and normal for a certain kind of person, thing or place: «a typical school day». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#m1)
2. Typical means showing the main features of its kind, a good example: «a typical desert plant». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#m2)
3. «Typical!» is said when something annoying happens again, as you expected. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons pupils describe «typical features» of a group: a typical insect has six legs; a typical mammal has hair and feeds its babies milk. In geography, «the typical weather» of a place. In maths, «average» helps find a typical value of a set of numbers. In everyday talk «Typical! It's raining on sports day.» Phrases: «typical of», «a typical day», «typically».

### Examples

- Describe a typical day at your school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x1)
- A cactus is a typical desert plant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x2)
- It's typical of him to be late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x3)
- Typical — the bus left just as we got there! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x4)
- A typical cat sleeps for many hours a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x5)
- What is the typical weather in Ireland in winter? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x6)
- Roast dinner is a typical Sunday meal in Britain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x7)
- But at all events each family now has features of its own, typical characteristics by which it may be readily distinguished from its neighbors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x8)

### Note

Adverb: typically. Said «TIP-i-cal» (the y sounds like i). «Typical of someone» = what they usually do. Maths: the mean, median or mode can show the typical value.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «typical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«typical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/typical.html) on Mova free.