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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mundane
     adj 1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday
            scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite
            like a real...train conductor to add color to a
            quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, quotidian,
             routine, unremarkable, workaday]
     2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane
        affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial
        practicality" [syn: terrestrial]
     3: belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;
        "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined
        kind"; "so terrene a being as himself" [syn: terrene]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mundane \Mun"dane\, a. [L. mundanus, fr. mundus the world, an
   implement, toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a.,
   clean, neat, Skr. ma[.n][dsdot] to adorn, dress,
   ma[.n][dsdot]a adornment. Cf. Monde, Mound in heraldry.]
   Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial;
   as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv.

         The defilement of mundane passions.      --I. Taylor.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

mundane

   <jargon> Someone outside some group that is implicit from the
   context, such as the computer industry or science fiction
   fandom.  The implication is that those in the group are
   special and those outside are just ordinary.

   (2000-07-22)

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 

mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction
   fandom. 2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense,
   most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." See
   also Real World, muggle.