- normal
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounVERB + NORMAL▪ be back to, go back to, return to▪
After a week of festivities, life returned to normal.
PREPOSITION▪ above normal▪The rainfall has been above normal for this time of year.
▪ below normal▪Sales to December are well below normal.
▪ near normal▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal.
adj.VERBS▪ be▪ become▪ feel▪ appear, look, seem▪ consider sth, regard sth as, view sth as▪It is now regarded as normal for women to work outside the home.
ADVERB▪ very▪ completely, entirely (esp. BrE), perfectly, quite, totally▪It started out as a perfectly normal day.
▪ fairly, pretty▪I'd say it was pretty normal to be upset if your house burned down.
▪ relatively▪ apparently, seeminglyPREPOSITION▪ for▪The temperature is normal for spring.
PHRASES▪ as normal▪First work out the answers as normal.
▪ in the normal way▪Go for your check-ups in the normal way until you are six months pregnant.
▪ in normal circumstances, under normal circumstances▪Under normal circumstances Martin would probably have gone to college.
▪ sb's normal self▪Mandy doesn't seem her normal self today.
Normal is used with these nouns: ↑baby, ↑bedtime, ↑behaviour, ↑birth, ↑bloke, ↑blood pressure, ↑cell, ↑channel, ↑childhood, ↑circumstance, ↑clothes, ↑complement, ↑condition, ↑context, ↑convention, ↑conversation, ↑course, ↑curve, ↑day, ↑development, ↑distribution, ↑expectation, ↑fare, ↑fashion, ↑fee, ↑folk, ↑growth, ↑guy, ↑habit, ↑hearing, ↑individual, ↑infant, ↑intake, ↑intelligence, ↑kid, ↑kind, ↑level, ↑life, ↑limit, ↑liver, ↑manner, ↑mode, ↑occurrence, ↑operation, ↑pattern, ↑people, ↑person, ↑practice, ↑precaution, ↑pregnancy, ↑procedure, ↑process, ↑rainfall, ↑range, ↑reaction, ↑reading, ↑residence, ↑response, ↑rhythm, ↑routine, ↑schedule, ↑self, ↑shape, ↑size, ↑speech, ↑speed, ↑subject, ↑teenager, ↑temperature, ↑tissue, ↑tone, ↑usage, ↑use, ↑vision, ↑way
Collocations dictionary. 2013.