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normal is an adjective and noun meaning "conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal". It carries 5 recorded senses.
conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
“serve wine at normal room temperature”
“normal diplomatic relations”
“normal working hours”
“normal word order”
“normal curiosity”
“the normal course of events”
in accordance with scientific laws
being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
“a perfectly normal child”
“of normal intelligence”
“the most normal person I've ever met”
psychology
something regarded as a normative example
“the convention of not naming the main character”
“violence is the rule not the exception”
“his formula for impressing visitors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for normal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.