The phrase "ordinary dictionary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard dictionary that provides definitions and meanings of words, as opposed to specialized or technical dictionaries.
Example: "For the meaning of common words, you can always refer to an ordinary dictionary."
Alternatives: "standard dictionary" or "regular dictionary".
Official definitions still vary widely, and most ordinary dictionaries adhere to the traditional "supply, movement, and quartering of troops," but neither has much influence on common usage, which remains stubbornly inconsistent and loose.
The mammoth work of Ambrogio Calepino, published at Reggio (now Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy) in 1502, incorporating several other languages besides Latin, was so popular that calepin came to be an ordinary word for a dictionary.
(1936, 75-7) {§6.7} Frourour assertion that philosophy provides definitions, it must not be inferred that it is the function of the philosopher to compile a dictionary, in the ordinary sense.
A more obscure but charming addition to the sport's literature is J. L. Carr's originally self-published "Dictionary of Extra-Ordinary English Cricketers," which includes such notables as: Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, died 1751.
Max has a fair use of deep words like femme fatale or bravado that not very ordinary people can understand without a dictionary, but it still gave a message on however it sounds like.
Though many authorities are consulted for this dictionary, the ultimate authority is the ordinary person's ordinary speech.
"A dictionary of pigments not in ordinary use, and of synonyms of pigments described in part III": p. 186-200.
322, which expressed "recognition of the dangers to the public health" from air pollution its ordinary meaning was "[t]he health of the community". Webster's New International Dictionary 2005 (2d ed. 1950).
322, which expressed recognition of the dangers to the public health from air pollutionits ordinary meaning was [t]he health of the community. Websters New International Dictionary 2005 (2d ed. 1950).
