[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mundane \mun"dane\, a. l. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an
   implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a.,
   clean, neat, skr. ma.ndsdot to adorn, dress,
   ma.ndsdota adornment. cf. monde, mound in heraldry.
   1. of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with
      heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere;
      mundane concerns. -- mun"danely, adv.
      1913 webster

            the defilement of mundane passions.   --i. taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. commonplace; ordinary; banal.
      pjc
see also:
monde mound heavenly mun"danely 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mundane
     adj 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, quotidian,
             routine, unremarkable, workaday
     2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane
        affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial
        practicality" syn: terrestrial
     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" syn: terrene
see also:
everyday quotidian routine unremarkable workaday terrestrial 
terrene 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 moby thesaurus words for "mundane":
   philistine, animal, arid, banausic, barren, carnal, carnal-minded,
   common, commonplace, dry, dull, earthbound, earthly, earthy,
   everyday, flat, fleshly, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid,
   literal, lowly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, nonsacred,
   ordinary, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, profane, prosaic, prosing,
   prosy, reprobate, secular, sensual, staid, stolid, stuffy,
   tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tiresome,
   unblessed, unembellished, unfanciful, unhallowed, unholy, unideal,
   unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired,
   uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unregenerate, unromantic,
   unromanticized, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, vapid,
   workaday, workday, worldly

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

mundane n. from sf fandom 1. a person who is not in science fiction
   fandom. 2. a person who is not in the computer industry. in this sense,
   most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." see
   also real world, muggle.


see also:
real world muggle 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

mundane
     
         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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