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day
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
enPR: dā
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /deɪ̯/
Audio (Received Pronunciation, female voice, "a day"): (file) Audio (Received Pronunciation, male voice): (file) Audio (California, [deː]): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /dæɪ̯/
Audio (Cultivated, [dɛɪ]): (file)
- (Canada) IPA(key): /deɪ̯/, [deː], [dɛj]
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): [dɛj]
- Homophones: Day, dey
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
day (plural days)
- The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
- Synonyms: daylight; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
- day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, […].
- A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
- Alternative form: d (symbol)
- Synonyms: twenty-four hour day, 24-hour day; nychthemeron (uncommon)
- Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
- Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour
- I've been here for two days and a bit.
- The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
- (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
- A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day
- The day begins at midnight.
- Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
- (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.
- A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- I worked two days last week.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- “ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
- An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
- Christmas Day
- Remembrance Day
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
- Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era
- every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
- 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother[200], Vanguard Press, →ISBN:
- In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- The day belonged to the Allies.
Hyponyms
- Apple Gifting Day
- arm day
- Ayurveda Day
- back day
- bad hair day
- Bastille Day
- birthday
- Boxing Day
- brain day
- bridal day
- calendar day
- Canada Day
- cardio day
- chest day
- Christmas Day
- civil day
- Commitment Day
- core day
- Corregidor Day
- day game
- Day of Atonement
- Day of Judgment
- day of reckoning
- day of rest
- Days of Awe
- days of grace
- day star
- D-Day
- dollar day
- doomsday
- duvet day
- Easter Day
- feast day
- field day
- flag day
- Flag Day
- foreday
- Friday
- fun-day
- fun day
- Gay Freedom Day
- heyday
- holiday
- holy day
- holy day of obligation
- I-Day
- Indigenous Peoples' Day
- Jerusalem Day
- judgment day
- Liberation Day
- lifeday
- loveday
- lower body day
- May Day
- mental health day
- midday
- Monday
- Mothering Day
- name day
- New Year's Day
- noonday
- one day
- Patriot Day
- payday
- polling day
- push day
- Q-Day
- Quitter's Day
- race day
- raceday
- rainy day
- rest day
- saint's day
- Saturday
- scambling day
- Seipp's day gecko
- sick day
- solar day
- someday
- St. Andrew's Day
- St. David's Day
- St. George's Day
- St. John's Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- St. Pattie's Day
- St. Patty's Day
- St. Stephen's Day
- Sunday
- synodic day
- the other day
- Thursday
- total body day
- trading day
- Trafalgar Day
- Tuesday
- Twelfth Day
- twenty-four hour day
- upper body day
- Victoria day
- wedding day
- Wednesday
- weekday
- workday
- working day
- workout day
- Wren Day
Derived terms
- 0-day
- 10-day measles
- 24-hour day
- 3-day measles
- 400-day clock
- 7-day fever
- 7-day measles
- 90-day wonder
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- access day
- account day
- ace in a day
- a cold day in hell
- a cold day in July
- a day after the fair
- a day late and a dollar short
- ahemeral day
- Alaska Day
- Alien Day
- all day
- all-day
- all-day breakfast
- all-day sucker
- all in a day's work
- all one's born days
- an apple a day
- an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- another day, another dollar
- another day in paradise
- any day
- any day now
- any day of the week
- any day of the week and twice on Sunday
- any day of the week and twice on Sundays
- as the day is long
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- at the end of the day
- away-day
- away day
- away-day girl
- a year and a day
- back in day
- back in the day
- bad old days
- Baker day
- banyan day
- basket days
- Bataan Day
- b-day
- beach day
- beginning of day
- be on days
- big day
- bin day
- birth-day
- black day
- black letter day
- black-letter day
- Bloomsday
- Bonifacio Day
- borrowed days
- borrowing days
- boxing day
- Break O'Day
- break of day
- business day
- button day
- by day
- by the day
- cake day
- call it a day
- call it half a day
- can do this all day
- canicular days
- carry the day
- catch of the day
- centiday
- chair days
- cheat day
- Chewidden Day
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- clear as day
- cold day in Hell
- contango day
- continuation day
- cooling-off day
- could go all day
- count one's days
- dage
- daily
- dan day
- darty
- dawn of a new day
- day after
- day after day
- day-after recall test
- day after tomorrow
- day-age
- day-age creationism
- day-age creationist
- day-ager
- day and age
- day-and-date
- day and night
- day at the beach
- day beacon
- daybeam
- day bed
- daybed
- day before yesterday
- day-biter
- day-blind
- day blind
- day-blindness
- day blindness
- day boarder
- dayboat
- daybook
- day book
- day boy
- dayboy
- day-break
- daybreak
- day by day
- day cab
- day care
- day care center
- daycarer
- day case
- daycase
- daycation
- day center
- daycentre
- day centre
- day-clean
- daycoach
- day coal
- daycore
- day count convention
- day cream
- day-dawn
- day dot
- daydream
- day drink, day-drink
- day-drinking
- day-ee
- dayer
- day fine
- day-fine
- dayflower
- dayfly
- dayflying
- day for night
- dayful
- day gecko
- dayger
- daygirl
- Day-Glo
- dayglow
- day gone by
- dayhike
- day hospital
- day in court
- day in, day out
- day in the sun
- dayjamas
- day job
- day labor
- day laborer
- day labour
- day labourer
- day lark
- daylength
- dayless
- day letter
- day level
- daylife
- daylight
- daylike
- day lily
- daylily
- daylong
- day-man
- day man
- daymare
- daymark
- daymeal
- day-moth
- day name
- day-net
- day-neutral
- day-nighter
- day nursery
- day of days
- day of doom
- day off
- day of judgement
- day of judgment
- day of the rope
- Day of Valor
- day-old
- day one
- day order
- day or night
- day out
- day-over-day
- daypack
- day pack
- daypart
- day patient
- day-peep
- day pupil
- day release
- day residue
- day return
- dayrise
- day room
- dayroom
- days
- daysack
- days ago
- daysail
- daysailer
- daysailing
- daysailor
- day-scholar
- day school
- day shape
- dayshield
- day shift
- dayside
- day-sight
- daysight
- day sign
- daysleeper
- dayslong
- daysman
- days of wine and roses
- days of yore
- dayspring
- days sales outstanding
- daystar
- daysworth
- day the music died
- daytime
- day time
- day-time
- day-to-day
- day to day
- day-to-night
- day-trade
- daytrade
- day trade
- day trader
- daytrader
- day-trader
- day trading
- daytrip
- day trip
- day-trip
- day-tripper
- day tripper
- daywalk
- daywalker
- dayward
- daywear
- day-work
- day work
- daywork
- day worker
- day-worker
- dayworker
- day-year principle
- D-day
- deathday
- deciday
- degree day
- degree—day
- dish of the day
- ditch day
- dog-day
- dog day cicada
- dog days
- don't give up the day job
- don't give up your day job
- don't quit your day job
- doona day
- double day
- dress-down day
- dumping day
- early day motion
- early days
- Earth day
- E-day
- eight-day clock
- eight days a week
- Ember day
- end of day
- end of the day
- end one's days
- even a stopped clock is right twice a day
- every-day
- every day
- everyday
- every day is a school day
- every day of the week
- every day of the week and twice on Sunday
- every day of the week and twice on Sundays
- every dog has his day
- every dog has its day
- every dog must have his day
- every dog must have its day
- evil day
- Evolution Day
- eye of day
- fair as the day
- fat day
- father-daughter day
- fifth-day fits
- first-day
- First-day
- first day cover
- first-day cover
- first notice day
- first order of the day
- fish and company stink after three days
- five-a-day
- five-day fever
- five-day week
- for days
- forever and a day
- four-day weekend
- free day
- from day to day
- from one day to the next
- full-body day
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- gag-a-day
- game day
- gameday
- gangday
- garbage day
- give the time of day
- glory days
- go about one's day
- God be with the days
- good day
- good old days
- gym day
- hackday
- haggaday
- halcyon days
- half day
- happy days
- happy day scenario
- have a nice day
- have a nice day syndrome
- have had its day
- have had one's day
- have had one's day under the sun
- have seen better days
- have seen one's day
- heat day
- heigh-day
- highday
- high days and holidays
- holiday
- holy day
- holy day of obligation
- honest as the day
- hump day
- I don't have all day
- if a day
- if one is a day
- I haven't got all day
- in all one's born days
- independence day
- Independence Day
- in one's born days
- in one's day
- INSET day
- in someone's day
- interday
- International Day of the Girl
- International Day of the Girl Child
- in the cold light of day
- in this day and age
- in three days
- intraday
- it is not every day
- it's early days
- it's not every day
- judgement day
- judgment day
- judicial day
- Julian day
- kiloday
- laced day-moth
- Lady-day
- last day
- late in the day
- latter-day
- Latter-day Saint
- law day
- lawful day
- lay day
- leap day
- leg day
- length of days
- liberation day
- light day
- live to fight another day
- Lord's Day
- Lord's day
- lunar day
- make a day of it
- make one's day
- make someone's day
- man day
- man-day
- market day
- match day
- May-day sweep
- M-day
- mean solar day
- me day
- members' day
- mental health day
- middle day
- modern-day
- muck-up day
- mufti day
- multiday
- naked as the day one entered the world
- naked as the day one was born
- name day
- name the day
- natal day
- national day
- National Heroes Day
- neck day
- next-day
- night-and-day
- night and day
- nine days' wonder
- nine days wonder
- nine day wonder
- nine-day wonder
- ninety days
- ninety-day wonder
- Ninoy Aquino Day
- nonday
- not look a day over
- now a days
- now-a-days
- Octave Day of Easter
- off day
- oh my days
- old days
- on a day-to-day basis
- one-day
- one-day cricket
- one-day international
- one-day match
- one of these days
- one of those days
- one's born days
- one's days are numbered
- open day
- Orange Shirt Day
- order of the day
- pajama day
- paper day
- pass the time of day
- pasture day moth
- pay day
- ped day
- peep o' day
- peep of day
- personal day
- person-day
- picture day
- plain as day
- playday
- poet's day
- POETS day
- poets' day
- poets day
- post day
- present-day
- privilege day
- push day
- quarter day
- quarter-day
- queen for a day
- rag day
- rain day
- rebirthday
- recycle day
- red day
- red flag day
- red-letter
- red-letter day
- red letter day
- return day
- Rome was not built in a day (dated)
- Rome wasn't built in a day
- Rome wasn't burned in a day
- rue the day
- rule the day
- running day
- Sabba-day
- Sabbath-day
- Sabber-day
- safe day
- salad days
- same-day
- same day lay
- same-day lay
- save for a rainy day
- save something for a rainy day
- save the day
- scanday
- schoolday
- school day
- Scout Official for a Day
- sea day
- seaday
- sea-day
- second day cover
- see the day
- see the light of day
- seize the day
- seven-day
- seven-day wonder
- Seventh-day
- Seventh-day Adventism
- Seventh-day Adventist
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Seward's Day
- ship's days
- show day
- sidereal day
- six bob a day tourist
- skier day
- slow news day
- snow day
- solar day
- some day
- somedays
- some days a diamond, some days a stone
- speech day
- sports day
- Star Wars Day
- stellar day
- sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- summer's day
- sunny-day flooding
- sweat like a nigger on election day
- tag day
- take one day at a time
- teacher work day
- tenday
- term day
- that'll be the day
- the day
- the day before
- the last day
- the next day
- these days
- those were the days
- three day eventing
- three-day fever
- three-day measles
- three days ago
- three-day sickness
- three day sickness
- three-day weekend
- ticket day
- tide day
- time of day
- today
- to-day
- today is a good day to die
- tomorrow is another day
- to one's dying day
- totally kind day
- to the day
- to this day
- trash day
- twelfth day cake
- twelfth-day cake
- twenty-four hours a day
- two-a-day
- two days after tomorrow
- Twosday
- until one's dying day
- vacation day
- varnishing day
- V-E Day
- Victoria Day
- V-J Day
- Waffle Day
- wake up one day
- washday
- washing day
- weather day
- wedding-day
- weekday
- week-day
- we haven't got all day
- what a lovely day
- what day is it today
- win the day
- without day
- woman-day
- workaday
- work-a-day
- work day
- yard trash day, yard-trash day
- yearday
- yesterday
- you learn something new every day
- zero-day, zero day
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: dei
Translations
Verb
day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)
- (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:
- I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]
See also
References
Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Common Turkic *dāy.
Pronunciation
Noun
day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
- “day” in Obastan.com.
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Cebuano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Hyphenation: day
Noun
day
- (colloquial) a familiar address to a girl
- a familiar address to a daughter
Hawaiian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
day
Kalasha
Verb
day
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæi̯/
- IPA(key): /daj/, /dɛj/ (Early Middle English)
Noun
- A day; a period of 24 hours or between sunrises.
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- Þu myhteſ faren al a dæiſ fare ſculdeſt thu neure finden man in tun ſittende · ne land tiled.
- You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 184, verso, lines 783-784:
- Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney / ffro day to day / they ryden in hir wey […]
- Towards Saluzzo they make their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way […]
- Daytime; day as opposed to night.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- and he clepide the liȝt, dai, and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.
- And he called light "day" and the darkness "night". And the evening and morning was made; one day.
- An epoch, age, or period.
- An particular day or period.
- Daylight, sunlight; the light of day.
- (architecture) A section of a window split into mullions.
Declension
1Optional; mostly fossilised after Early Middle English.
2Only found in Early Middle English and optional there.
Antonyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
day
- alternative form of þei (“they”)
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Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.
Pronunciation
Noun
day (plural days)
References
- “day, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- “dei, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdaj/ [ˈd̪aɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: day
Noun
day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)
- alternative spelling of 'day
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Verb
day
- to rub
- 2016, chapter 2, in Nguyễn Đức Vịnh, transl., Đừng nói chuyện với cô ấy, part I, NXB Phụ Nữ, translation of 别和她说话 by Yù Jǐn (Ngộ Cẩn):
- Tôi đặt bút xuống, khẽ liếm môi, lại đưa tay day mắt, cảm thấy mình như vừa tỉnh mộng.
- I put down my pen, gently licked my lips, and lifted my hand to again rub my eyes, feeling as if I had just woken up from a dream.
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