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# typical

«typical» in Mova's school dictionary: **usual and normal for a certain kind of person, thing or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (typical, more typical, most typical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Typical means usual and normal for a certain kind of person, thing or place: «a typical school day». [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x1)
- A cactus is a typical desert plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x2)
- It's typical of him to be late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x3)
- Typical — the bus left just as we got there! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x4)
- A typical cat sleeps for many hours a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x5)
- What is the typical weather in Ireland in winter? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/#x6)
- Roast dinner is a typical Sunday meal in Britain. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Chatbots have a typical style, with words like "furthermore" and "in conclusion", that teachers learn to notice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «typical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.