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Typical   /tˈɪpəkəl/  /tˈɪpɪkəl/   Listen
Typical

adjective
1.
Exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category.  "A typical suburban community" , "The typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year" , "A painting typical of the Impressionist school" , "A typical romantic poem" , "A typical case of arteritis"  Antonym: atypical.
2.
Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing.  Synonym: distinctive.  "That is typical of you!"
3.
Conforming to a type.  "Typical teenage behavior"



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"Typical" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lampton as a girl rose and faded before his eyes as he hurriedly shaved himself, slipped into his flannels and adjusted his necktie as punctiliously as though he were going to a tennis-party at Mena House Hotel. It is typical of Englishmen in the East that the young men in the excavating camps, and especially in the one to which Michael belonged, showed as much regard for their personal appearance and nicety of dress, even when ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer
... Even if that were not worth doing at all, it would be worth doing as well as he has done it; for the pleasure we take in the author's skill repays us, or at least reconciles us to the baseness of his attitude. Fat Peg (La Grosse Margot) is typical of much; it is a piece of experience that has nowhere else been rendered into literature; and a kind of gratitude for the author's plainness mingles, as we read, with the nausea proper to the business. I shall ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Garwood sought was a typical Raines Law hotel on a corner, with a saloon on the first floor, and apparently the requisite number of rooms above to ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... dependence has had to be placed upon the farming population; and this dependence has hitherto been justified. But it can not be justified in the future if agriculture is permitted to sink in the scale as compared with other employments. We can not afford to lose that preeminently typical American, the farmer who owns his own medium-sized farm. To have his place taken by either a class of small peasant proprietors, or by a class of great landlords with tenant-farmed estates would be a ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
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