- [uncountable] the usual or average state, level or standard
- above/below normal The rainfall has been above normal for the time of year.
- Sales to December are well below normal.
- (back) to normal Things soon returned to normal.
- The service will be back to normal next week.
- as normal Life continued as normal.
- After the disruption, everyone tried to carry on as normal.
Extra Examples- After a week of festivities, life returned to normal.
- His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + normal- be back to
- go back to
- return to
- …
- above normal
- below normal
- near normal
- …
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- [countable] (informal) a person who is ordinary or healthy
- Loads of people, from celebrities to normals, can be funny on X.
- The risk of disease in these patients is 8 000 times that of normals.
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘right-angled’): from Latin normalis, from norma ‘carpenter's square’. Current senses date from the early 19th cent.
Idioms
See normal in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee normal in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthe new normal
- a situation that used to be unusual but is now what you should expect
- This is not a temporary blip—this is the new normal.
- Scientists say these weather patterns could be the new normal for Florida.
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