day
nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United States//deɪ̯//
- //dæɪ̯//
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
noun
- 1
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
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,[…].
- 2
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
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.
- 3
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long. The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- 4
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long. 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.
- 5
informalA 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.
- 6
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.
The day begins at midnight.
Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
- 7
The rotational period of a planet.
A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
Radio emissions indicate that a Neptunian day lasts 16.1 hours, an hour and a half shorter than previously thought.
- 8
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
I worked two days last week.
“[…]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.[…]”
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An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
Christmas Day
Remembrance Day
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A day set aside for a specified activity.
leg day, moving day, observation day
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A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
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.
If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
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.
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A period of contention of a day or less.
The day belonged to the Allies.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-? Proto-Germanic *dagaz Proto-West Germanic *dag Old English dæġ Middle English day English day Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Cognates Cognate with Scots day, dei, dey, dy (“day”), Yola daie, dei, dey, die (“day”), North Frisian dai, doi, däi (“day”), Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Bavarian Dåg, Tåg (“day”), Central Franconian Daach (“day”), Cimbrian tag, tage (“day”), Dutch dag, dagge (“day”), German Tag (“day”), German Low German Dag, Dagg (“day”), Limburgish Daach, Daag (“day”), Luxembourgish Dag (“day”), Mòcheno ta (“day”), Vilamovian taog (“day”), West Flemish dag (“day”), Yiddish טאָג (tog, “day”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dag (“day”), Faroese and Icelandic dagur (“day”), Norn dagh (“day”), Crimean Gothic tag (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”), Vandalic *dag- (“day”); also Breton deviñ (“to burn”), Cornish dewi (“to kindle”), Irish daigh (“fire, flame”), dóigh (“to burn, singe; sear, scorch”), Manx daah (“to scorch, singe; to cauterize”), Scottish Gaelic dòth (“scorch, singe; burn”), Welsh deifio (“to scorch, singe”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm”), Greek τέφρα (téfra, “ash, cinder”), Albanian dhez, ndez (“to kindle, light”), Old Prussian dagis (“summer”), Armenian հրդեհ (hrdeh, “fire”), Sanskrit दह् (dah, “to burn, consume by fire, scorch, roast”).
verb
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rareTo spend a day (in a place).
I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]
Forms
- plural
- days
- past tense
- dayed
- past participle
- dayed
- present participle
- daying
- third person singular
- days
day · The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
Day · A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval…day-to-day · Ordinary, mundane, or everyday.daybreak · The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.