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day
noun
ˈdā
plural days
Synonyms of day
1
a
: the time of light between one night and the next
the shortest day of the year
b
: daylight sense 1
woke up at the break of day
c
: daytime
sleeps during the day and works at night
2
astronomy
: the period of rotation of a planet (such as earth) or a moon on its axis
the length of one day on Mars
3
: the mean solar day of 24 hours beginning at midnight by mean time
open seven days a week the first day of every month Take one pill two times a day.
4
: a specified day or date
their wedding day the day of her birth
5
: a specified time or period : age
in grandfather's day
—often used in pluralthe old daysthe days of sailing ships
6
: the conflict or contention of the day
played hard and won the day
7
: the time established by usage or law for work, school, or business
starts his day with a cup of coffee after a long day at school We have a busy day tomorrow.
see also day after day, day in and day out
Synonyms
daylight
daytime
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Examples of day in a Sentence
We're open seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Payment is due on the first day of every month.
“What day of the week is the 28th?” “It's a Friday.”
He spent five days in the hospital.
She left on Thursday and came back four days later.
That was the happiest day of my life.
Parenthood gets better every day.
The office is closed for the day.
She works eight hours a day.
It costs 10 dollars a day to park there.
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Recent Examples on the Web
Like Kim, many are Korean immigrants who spend seven days a week peddling their wares to a mostly Black clientele.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
In the upload, the couple enjoyed some time outdoors on a sunny day.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
The regents eventually reversed course a few days later.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
Homeowner Andrew Lester, 84, was accused of first-degree assault in Clay County Circuit Court a few days later as protests were mounting in Kansas City.
—Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
Indianapolis had record-breaking temperatures in February and has exceeded average daily temperatures multiple days in March.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
Four days later, his son used the firearm to gun down his classmates.
—Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
The verdict was announced during the second day of deliberations, after a two-week trial that has been followed closely in his home country.
—International Desk, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
John Belushi used to play him back in the day, with Darrell Hammond portraying the author in a play a few years back.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English dæg; akin to Old High German tag day
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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before the 12th century
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Phrases Containing day
all-day
(all) the livelong day
all in a day's work
any day now
as clear as day/daylight/anything
day care
day in and day out
day job
day is breaking
day laborer
day letter
day/moment/time in the sun
day one
day school
day nursery
day return
(as) plain as day
at all hours of the day
day student
by day
by the day
can't wait all day
bad hair day
break of day
at the end of the day
business day
day worker
catch of the day
day camp
day after day
day by day
degree-day
don't have all day
ember day
every dog has his/its day
fast day
first day cover
from that day forth
from that day forth/forward
for a rainy day
give (someone) the time of day
have a field day
have a nice day
have one's day in court
haven't got all day
have a good day
high day
holy day of obligation
holy day
if he/she is day
in one's day
in this day and age
in the cold light of day
late in the day
it is not every day
lay day
latter-day
Latter-day Saint
long-day
lucky day
live to see the day
make a day/night/morning/afternoon/evening of it
Lord's day
man-day
M-day
make someone's day
mental health day
modern-day
mean solar day
night and day
name day
not look a day over
not give (someone) the time of day
on a day-to-day basis
on the day
open day
order of the day
polling day
pass the time of day
present-day
rainy day
queen for a day letter
queen for a day agreement
red-letter day
rainy day fund
save the day
see the day
sick day
slow news day
short-day
seize the day
someone's day
see the light of day
speech day
sports day
take it/things day by day
take each day as it comes
take a/the day off
take one day at a time
take it/things one day at a time
that'll be the day
the big day
the day before yesterday
the heat of the day
today's the day
to this day
to the day
twenty-four hours a day
the present day
the order of the day
the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening
zero-day
working day
until one's dying day
a day to remember
day to day
day trip
family day
D-day
a day
judgment day
solar day
early day
day in, day out
bluebird day
snow day
from one day to the next
flag day
hump day
twice a day
day-neutral
dress-down day
groundhog day
any old day
field day
good day
quarter day
dollar day
sidereal day
day-tripper
call it a day
one day
V-day
day trader
from day to day
of the day
saint's day
carry the day
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day
noun
ˈdā
1
a
: the time of light between one night and the next
b
: daylight
2
a
: the time the earth takes to make one turn on its axis
b
: the time required for a heavenly body to turn once on its axis
a lunar day
3
: a period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
4
: a specified day or date
the day of the picnic their wedding day
5
: a specified time or period : age
in grandmother's day
6
: the conflict or dispute of the day
fought hard and won the day
7
: the time set apart by custom or law for work
the eight-hour day
Biographical Definition
Day
1 of 3
biographical name (1)
ˈdā
Clarence Shepard, Jr. 1874–1935 American author
Day
2 of 3
biographical name (2)
Thomas 1748–1789 English author
Day
3 of 3
biographical name (3)
William Rufus 1849–1923 American statesman and jurist
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daynoun [ C ] uk
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A1 a period of 24 hours, especially from twelve o'clock one night to twelve o'clock the next night: January has 31 days. the days of the weekevery day He runs five miles every day. It took us almost a day to get here.the day before yesterday I saw him the day before yesterday.the day after tomorrow We leave the day after tomorrow. He was last seen alive five days ago.for days They haven't been seen for days (= for several days).in a few days I'll be seeing Pat in a few days.in a few days' time She says the protest will end in a few days' time. How's your day been? (= Have you enjoyed today?) Have a nice day!a big day I must get some sleep - I've got a big day (= an important day) tomorrow.
A2 used to refer to the period in 24 hours when it is naturally light: a bright sunny dayall day It rained all day. These animals sleep during the day and hunt at night.
A2 the time that you usually spend at work or at school: a normal working day I work a seven-hour day. We're having to work a six-day week to cope with demand.
day off
a day when you do not have to work or do something that you normally do: I won't be in on Thursday - it's my day off.
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B1 a few days ago: Didn't I see you in the post office the other day?
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A2 used to talk about the present time, in comparison with the past: Vegetarianism is very popular these days.
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B2 in the past: In those days people used to write a lot more letters.
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B2 very soon, especially within the next few days: The baby's due any day now.
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when it is naturally light: I prefer travelling by day.
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B1 repeatedly, every day: The same problems keep coming up day after day.
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all the time: You can hear the traffic from your room day and night.
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B2 every day, or more and more as each day passes: Day by day he became weaker.
See more (from) day to day
If something changes (from) day to day, it changes often: The symptoms of the disease change from day to day.
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before each day happens: I never know what I’ll be doing from one day to the next.
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C1 a period in history: How did people communicate in the days before email?
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up to and including the present moment: To this day nobody knows what happened to him.
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More examplesFewer examplesI always like to leave my desk clear at the end of the day.We went to Edinburgh and back again all in one day.We're open every day except Sunday.She had five days off work due to illness.The soldiers marched 90 miles in three days.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Days & times of day
afternoon
afternoons
all day
am
arvo
high noon
hour
in broad daylight idiom
in the dead of night/winter idiom
last orders
night
noontime
o'clock
office hours
opening time
overnight
the witching hour
twilit
workday
working day
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Grammar
Nowadays, these days or today?We can use nowadays, these days or today as adverbs meaning ‘at the present time, in comparison with the past’: …
Idioms
all in a day's work
the best/happiest days of your life
day in day out
someone's/something's days are numbered
have had its/your day
have your day in court
in all my (born) days
in my day
in this day and age
it's not every day (that)...
More idioms
make someone's day
not be someone's day
oh my days!
the old days
one of these days
one of those days
one/some day
take it one day at a time/take each day as it comes
that'll be the day
those were the days
to the day
(Definition of day from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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a period of 24 hours, esp. from 12 o’clock one night to 12 o’clock the next night, or the part of this period after the sun rises but before it goes down, when there is light: My husband picks up our son every day after school. In summer the days are longer and we have cookouts in the backyard. We leave on vacation the day after tomorrow.
A day is also the part of a period of 24 hours that you spend at work: He’s been working 12-hour days this week.
Days can mean a long period of time: In those days (= that period in history), people had large families.
Idioms
day after day
day and night
day by day
day in, day out
(Definition of day from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of day
day
Eggs are shed on the day of use.
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One male was used on each experimental day.
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An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
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Broadcasting of the fertilizer in flooded rice fields is easy and can be done in less than a day for an entire hectare.
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The target dose for purely ocular myasthenia is up to 0.75 mg/kg bodyweight on alternate days.
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If hemodynamic stability can be achieved, sinus rhythm returns in the vast majority of patients spontaneously within a few days after surgery.
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He fell again a few days later and returned with a second confirmed spinal fracture requiring cervical fusion.
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We replaced one of the scheduled formal discussions with two parallel informal discussions in the day room to explore the impact of context.
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The olives (four per container) were replaced every other day.
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A single leaf was placed in each pot containing larvae and this was replaced every second day.
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Trimedlure emitters from the barrier and the monitoring traps were replaced every two months and tri-pack attractants and dichlorvos strips were replaced every 45 days.
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The pieces of maize stems were replaced once every two days.
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In both years, the sticky flypaper was replaced every two days.
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The food/water mixture was replaced every other day.
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On average, there are 10 requests per day.
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一天，一日, 白天，白晝, 工作天…
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दिवस, 24 तासांपैकी उजेड असतानाचा काळ, शाळेत किंवा कामाच्या ठिकाणी घालवलेला वेळ…
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24 மணிநேர காலம், குறிப்பாக ஒரு இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி முதல் அடுத்த இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி வரை, அது இயற்கையாகவே ஒளி இருக்கும் போது 24 மணி நேரத்தில் காலம் குறிக்க பயன்படுத்தப்படும்…
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day
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70 ENTRIES FOUND:
day (noun)
Day–Glo (trademark)
days (adverb)
day–to–day (adjective)
day care (noun)
day laborer (noun)
day one (noun)
day trader (noun)
all–day (adjective)
All Fools' Day (noun)
April Fools' Day (noun)
Armistice Day (noun)
Boxing Day (noun)
Christmas Day (noun)
Columbus Day (noun)
D–day (noun)
dog days (noun)
Father's Day (noun)
field day (noun)
Flag Day (noun)
good day (interjection)
Groundhog Day (noun)
high day (noun)
holy day (noun)
Independence Day (noun)
Judgment Day (noun)
Labor Day (noun)
latter–day (adjective)
May Day (noun)
Memorial Day (noun)
modern–day (adjective)
Mother's Day (noun)
New Year's Day (noun)
open day (noun)
order of the day (noun)
Pancake Day (noun)
present day (noun)
Presidents' Day (noun)
red–letter day (noun)
Saint Patrick's Day (noun)
saint's day (noun)
Saint Valentine's Day (noun)
salad days (noun)
sick day (noun)
snow day (noun)
speech day (noun)
sports day (noun)
Valentine's Day (noun)
Veterans Day (noun)
working day (noun)
born (adjective)
call (verb)
carry (verb)
cold (adjective)
dog (noun)
early (adjective)
end (noun)
glory (noun)
know (verb)
late (adjective)
light (noun)
livelong (adjective)
night (noun)
nine days' wonder (noun)
number (verb)
other (adjective)
rainy (adjective)
save (verb)
see (verb)
time (noun)
day
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noun
plural
days
day
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Britannica Dictionary definition of DAY
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a period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
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one of the seven time periods that make up a week
We're open seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Payment is due on the first day of every month.
“What day is (it) today?” “Tuesday.”
“What day [=date] is Friday?” “It's the 28th.”
“What day of the week is the 28th?” “It's a Friday.”
He spent five days in the hospital.
She left on Thursday and came back four days later.
The baby is due (to be born) in three days.
That was the happiest day of my life.
Parenthood gets better every day.
We'll be finished in a day or two. = We'll be finished in a couple of days.
It rained for a day and a half. [=it rained for about 36 hours]
The office is closed for the day.
I call him every (single) day.
Tomorrow is another day. [=there will be more opportunities to do things tomorrow]
a day of celebration/mourning [=a day for people to celebrate/mourn]
Take one pill two times a day. [=each day]
She works eight hours a day.
It costs 10 dollars a day to park there.
The party is the day after tomorrow. = The party is in two days.
It happened the day before yesterday. = It happened two days ago.
Sometimes they didn't speak to each other for days on end. [=several days]
From that day forth/forward [=(less formally) from then on], I was determined to do better.
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◊ If you do not look a day over a particular age, you appear to be that age.
“Today's my 50th birthday.” “Really? I'm surprised. You don't look a day over 40.” [=you don't look any older than 40 years old]
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◊ If you say that someone is a particular age if he/she is a day, you mean that the person is that age or older.
The man she's dating is 60 if he's a day. [=he is at least sixty years old]
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the time of light between one night and the next
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the part of the day when light from the sun can be seen
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What a beautiful summer day!
a cold/wet/rainy day
The shortest day of the year is usually December 22, and June 22 is usually the longest.
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He sleeps during the day [=daytime] and works at night.
You can call me anytime, day or night.
These animals are mostly active during the day.
I work during the day. [=I work days]
She's a student by day [=during the day] and a waitress by night.
I woke at (the) break of day. [=(more commonly) dawn, daybreak, sunrise]
day workers [=people who work during the day]
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opposite night
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the part of the day when people are usually most active and when most businesses are open
[singular]
I like to start my day with a cup of coffee. [=I like to drink a cup of coffee as soon as I wake up]
We decided to rent a car for the day.
How was your day?
By the end of the day, we were all exhausted.
Our neighbors play their loud music at all hours of the day. [=throughout the day]
Let's go to bed. We have an early day [=we will get out of bed early] tomorrow.
I needed to relax after a long day at work/school. [=after working/being at school for a long time]
“Thank you, ma'am. Have a nice day!”
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[noncount]
I'll be gone all day.
It rained all day long.
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◊ People sometimes say that they can't wait all day or don't have all day when they are in a hurry and need someone to move or act more quickly. These phrases are usually used in a rude way.
Hurry up! I can't wait all day! = I don't have all day. = I haven't got all day.
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the hours during a day when a person works or goes to school or when a company does business
I put in four twelve-hour days [=workdays] this week.
She makes about 50 dollars a/per day.
He was late for his first day on the job.
They collected a full day's pay for half a day's work.
We had a busy couple of days at the store.
We have a short day tomorrow. [=we have to work fewer hours tomorrow than usual]
The school committee is pushing for a longer school day.
Tomorrow's our last day of school (for the school year).
Please allow 14 business days [=days when most businesses are open; weekdays that are not holidays] for delivery.
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◊ If something is all in a day's work for someone, it is part of a person's typical work.
Solving violent crimes is all in a day's work for these police detectives.
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◊ To take a/the day off is to decide not to work on a particular day.
He took the day off to go fishing.
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the day on which something specified happens or is expected to happen
It rained on their wedding day.
the day of his birth
This Sunday is family day [=a day for families especially with young children] at the amusement park.
If you've been waiting for the perfect skiing conditions, today's the day. [=the conditions are perfect today]
So, when's the big day? When are you getting married?
Did you ever think you'd see the day when he would apologize? [=did you believe he would ever apologize?]
I never thought I would live to see the day when you would graduate from college. [=I did not think I would live long enough to see you graduate]
Let her have her day in court [=let her defend herself in a court of law] before you pass judgment on her.
This is your lucky day. [=a day when something good happens to you]
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◊ If a day is your day, something good will happen to you on that day.
You never know. Maybe today will be my day. [=maybe I will succeed, win, etc., today]
I'm sorry you lost. I guess it just wasn't your day.
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◊ People sometimes use the phrase that'll be the day to say that they think something will not happen.
“Do you think he'll ever admit he made a mistake?” “That'll be the day!”
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a particular period of time
She was the most talented actress of her day. [=during the time when she lived and worked as an actress]
In my day [=when I was young], boys asked girls out on dates, not the other way around.
Life was simpler in my grandmother's day, but it wasn't easier.
We sell books dating from 1875 to the present day. [=today]
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— often plural
He often spoke about his days as a soldier.
I was quite an athlete in my younger days. [=when I was young]
The practice dates back to the days of ancient Rome.
the olden days
my college days [=when I was in college]
the days of stagecoaches [=when stagecoaches were used]
In those days many factory workers were children.
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◊ The saying those were the days is sometimes used to say that a period of time in the past was pleasant and often better than the present time.
When I was a kid, we spent our summers at the beach. Those were the days!
In the 1960s, everything seemed possible. Those were the good old days.
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(all) the livelong day
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any day now
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within the next few days
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soon
We're expecting a phone call from him any day now. [=in the near future]
Any day now, the decision could be made.
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at the end of the day
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call it a day
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carry/win the day
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to win or be successful
The “no” vote carried the day. [=prevailed]
We believe that truth and justice will carry/win the day.
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day after day
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for several days without stopping or changing
She wore the same pants day after day.
Day after day, we hear the same complaints from our customers.
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day and night
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night and day
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all the time
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without stopping
We've been working on it day and night. = We've been working on it night and day.
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complete or total
The difference between them is day and night. = The difference between them is night and day. [=they are completely different]
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day by day
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in small amounts every day
Day by day, the situation is becoming more complex.
She felt herself growing stronger day by day. [=every day]
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◊ If you take it/things day by day, you make progress in a slow and careful way by dealing with each day as it comes.
He hopes to make a full recovery after his surgery, but right now he's just taking it day by day. [=taking it one day at a time, taking each day as it comes]
I don't know if our relationship is going to work out. I'm taking things day by day at this point.
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day in, day out
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day in and day out
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every day for many days
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for a long time without stopping or changing
She does the same thing at her job day in, day out.
It can be difficult to spend all of your time with one person day in and day out.
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days are numbered
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early days (yet)
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every dog has its day
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for a rainy day
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from day to day
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every day
His opinions seem to change from day to day. [=from one day to the next]
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from one day to the next
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every day
She changes her mind from one day to the next. [=from day to day]
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as one day becomes another day
You never know from one day to the next what's going to happen to you.
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give (someone) the time of day
chiefly US, informal
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to pay attention to someone
— usually used in negative statements
No one would give us the time of day.
I needed their help, but they wouldn't give me the time of day.
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glory days
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have seen/known better days
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in all your born days
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see born
in the cold light of day
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in this day and age
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at the present time in history
Computers are essential to getting work done in this day and age. [=nowadays]
It's unbelievable that in this day and age people are still dying from hunger.
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it is not every day
— used to say that something happens very rarely
It's not every day that I get to meet the President.
Go ahead and spend the extra money. It's not every day that you get married.
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late in the day
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make someone's day
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to cause someone's day to be pleasant or happy
Thanks for the compliment. You've really made my day!
It made my day to see his smiling face.
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of the day
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served in a restaurant as a special item on a particular day
What's the fish/vegetable of the day?
Our soup of the day [=du jour] is vegetable beef.
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of a particular period of time
What were some of the popular movies of the day? [=that were popular during that time]
the important issues of the day
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one day
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at some time in the future
One day, it'll happen. You'll see.
People may one day [=someday] be able to take vacations to the moon.
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on a day in the past
I went to her house one day and had lunch with her.
One day, we had a terrible argument.
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on the day
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on the day that an event happens
I know we seem a bit disorganized now, but we'll be all right on the day.
Whether we win or not depends on which players are healthy on the day.
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save the day
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see the light of day
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some day
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at some time in the future
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someday
Some day I may be rich enough to own two houses.
I'd like to return there some day.
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take each day as it comes
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take one day at a time
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take it/things one day at a time
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to deal with each day's problems as they come instead of worrying about the future
There's no way to know what the future will bring, so just take each day as it comes and hope for the best.
Take one day at a time and don't expect things to change overnight.
It's important to take things one day at a time so you don't feel too overwhelmed.
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the other day
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these days
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at the present time
It seems that everyone has a cell phone these days. [=nowadays]
What kind of music are you listening to these days?
These days, she has a very busy social life.
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◊ The phrase one of these days means at some time in the future.
One of these days, [=one day] I'm going to buy myself a boat.
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those days
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a period of time in the past
Remember when we were kids and life was easy? Well, those days are gone.
In those days, women weren't allowed to own property.
No one knew in those days what caused the disease.
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◊ If it is (just) one of those days, it is a day in which many bad or unpleasant things happen.
It's just one of those days when everything seems to go wrong.
I missed the bus and sprained my ankle; it was one of those days when nothing was going right.
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to the day
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to exactly a specified number of years
It's been 100 years to the day since their great discovery.
Soon after their wedding, almost a year to the day, they got divorced.
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to this day
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up to now
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continuing until today
To this day, I still don't know what happened.
The belief persists to this day.
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1Etymology
2Definitions
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2.1Apparent and mean solar day
2.1.1Civil day
2.2Sidereal day
2.3In the International System of Units
2.4In decimal and metric time
2.5Other definitions
3Variations in length
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3.1Geological day lengths
4Boundaries
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5.1Daytime
5.2Twilight
5.3Night
6See also
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Time of one rotation around a planet axis
For the part of the day when there is daylight, see Daytime. For other uses, see Day (disambiguation).
A quarter-day cycle at Midtown Manhattan, from afternoon to dusk
A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds). As a day passes at a given location it experiences morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. This daily cycle drives circadian rhythms in many organisms, which are vital to many life processes.
A collection of sequential days is organized into calendars as dates, almost always into weeks, months and years. A solar calendar organizes dates based on the Sun's annual cycle, giving consistent start dates for the four seasons from year to year. A lunar calendar organizes dates based on the Moon's lunar phase.
In common usage, a day starts at midnight, written as 00:00 or 12:00 am in 24- or 12-hour clocks, respectively. Because the time of midnight varies between locations, time zones are set up to facilitate the use of a uniform standard time. Other conventions are sometimes used, for example the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, so the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday. In astronomy, a day begins at noon so that observations throughout a single night are recorded as happening on the same day.
In specific applications, the definition of a day is slightly modified, such as in the SI day (exactly 86,400 seconds) used for computers and standards keeping, local mean time accounting of the Earth's natural fluctuation of a solar day, and stellar day and sidereal day (using the celestial sphere) used for astronomy. In most countries outside of the tropics, daylight saving time is practiced, and each year there will be one 23-hour civil day and one 25-hour civil day. Due to slight variations in the rotation of the Earth, there are rare times when a leap second will get inserted at the end of a UTC day, and so while almost all days have a duration of 86,400 seconds, there are these exceptional cases of a day with 86,401 seconds (in the half-century spanning 1972 through 2022, there have been a total of 27 leap seconds that have been inserted, so roughly once every other year).
Etymology[edit]
The term comes from the Old English term dæġ (/dæj/), with its cognates such as dagur in Icelandic, Tag in German, and dag in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Dutch – all stemming from a Proto-Germanic root *dagaz.[1] As of October 17, 2015[update], day is the 205th most common word in American English,[2] and the 210th most common in English English.[2]
Definitions[edit]
Apparent and mean solar day[edit]
Earth's rotation imaged by Deep Space Climate Observatory, showing axis tilt
Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context, need, and convenience. Besides the day of 24 hours (86,400 seconds), the word day is used for several different spans of time based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis. An important one is the solar day, the time it takes for the Sun to return to its culmination point (its highest point in the sky). Due to an orbit's eccentricity, the Sun resides in one of the orbit's foci instead of the middle. Consequently, due to Kepler's second law, the planet travels at different speeds at various positions in its orbit, and thus a solar day is not the same length of time throughout the orbital year. Because the Earth moves along an eccentric orbit around the Sun while the Earth spins on an inclined axis, this period can be up to 7.9 seconds more than (or less than) 24 hours. In recent decades, the average length of a solar day on Earth has been about 86,400.002 seconds[3] (24.000 000 6 hours). There are currently about 365.2421875 solar days in one mean tropical year.
Ancient custom has a new day starting at either the rising or setting of the Sun on the local horizon (Italian reckoning, for example, being 24 hours from sunset, old style).[4] The exact moment of, and the interval between, two sunrises or sunsets depends on the geographical position (longitude and latitude, as well as altitude), and the time of year (as indicated by ancient hemispherical sundials).
A more constant day can be defined by the Sun passing through the local meridian, which happens at local noon (upper culmination) or midnight (lower culmination). The exact moment is dependent on the geographical longitude, and to a lesser extent on the time of the year. The length of such a day is nearly constant (24 hours ± 30 seconds). This is the time as indicated by modern sundials.
A further improvement defines a fictitious mean Sun that moves with constant speed along the celestial equator; the speed is the same as the average speed of the real Sun, but this removes the variation over a year as the Earth moves along its orbit around the Sun (due to both its velocity and its axial tilt).
In terms of Earth's rotation, the average day length is about 360.9856°. A day lasts for more than 360° of rotation because of the Earth's revolution around the Sun. With a full year being slightly more than 360 days, the Earth's daily orbit around the Sun is slightly less than 1°, so the day is slightly less than 361° of rotation.
Elsewhere in the Solar System or other parts of the universe, a day is a full rotation of other large astronomical objects with respect to its star.[5]
Civil day[edit]
For civil purposes, a common clock time is typically defined for an entire region based on the local mean solar time at a central meridian. Such time zones began to be adopted about the middle of the 19th century when railroads with regularly occurring schedules came into use, with most major countries having adopted them by 1929. As of 2015, throughout the world, 40 such zones are now in use: the central zone, from which all others are defined as offsets, is known as UTC±00, which uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The most common convention starts the civil day at midnight: this is near the time of the lower culmination of the Sun on the central meridian of the time zone. Such a day may be called a calendar day.
A day is commonly divided into 24 hours, with each hour being made up of 60 minutes, and each minute composed of 60 seconds.
Sidereal day[edit]
Main articles: Earth's rotation § Stellar day, Sidereal time, and Rotation period
Rotation of the dwarf planet Ceres
A sidereal day or stellar day is the span of time it takes for the Earth to make one entire rotation[6] with respect to the celestial background or a distant star (assumed to be fixed).[7] Measuring a day as such is used in astronomy.[7] A sidereal day is about 4 minutes less than a solar day of 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds), or 0.99726968 of a solar day of 24 hours.[8] There are about 366.2422 stellar days in one mean tropical year (one stellar day more than the number of solar days).[9]
Besides a stellar day on Earth, other bodies in the Solar System have day times, the durations of these being:[10][11]
Name
Daylength (hours)
Mercury
4222.6
Venus
2802
Earth's Moon
708.7
Mars
24.7
Ceres
9[12]–9.1[13]
Jupiter
9.9
Saturn
10.7
Uranus
17.2
Neptune
16.1
Pluto
153.3
In the International System of Units[edit]
Main article: International System of Units
In the International System of Units (SI), a day not an official unit, but is accepted for use with SI.[14] A day, with symbol d, is defined using SI units as 86,400 seconds; the second is the base unit of time in SI units. In 1967–68, during the 13th CGPM (Resolution 1),[15] the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) redefined a second as "... the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."[16] This makes the SI-based day last exactly 794,243,384,928,000 of those periods.
In decimal and metric time[edit]
Main articles: decimal time and Metric time
Decimal clock face, made in around the start of the 19th century
Various decimal or metric time proposals have been made, but do not redefine the day, and use the day or sidereal day as a base unit. Metric time uses metric prefixes to keep time. It uses the day as the base unit, and smaller units being fractions of a day: a metric hour (deci) is 1⁄10 of a day; a metric minute (milli) is 1⁄1000 of a day; etc.[17] Similarly, in decimal time, the length of a day is static to normal time. A day is also split into 10 hours, and 10 days comprise a décade – the equivalent of a week. 3 décades make a month.[18]: 35 Various decimal time proposals which do not redefine the day: Henri de Sarrauton's proposal kept days, and subdivided hours into 100 minutes;[18]: 42 in Mendizábal y Tamborel's proposal, the sidereal day was the basic unit, with subdivisions made upon it;[18]: 42–43 and Rey-Pailhade's proposal divided the day 100 cés.[18]: 42
Other definitions[edit]
The word refers to various similarly defined ideas, such as:
Full day
24 hours (exactly) (a nychthemeron)
A day counting approximation, for example "See you in three days." or "the following day"
The full day covering both the dark and light periods, beginning from the start of the dark period or from a point near the middle of the dark period
A full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English, from the Greek for night-day;[19] or more colloquially the term 24 hours. In other languages, 24 hours is also often used. Other languages also have a separate word for a full day.
Part of a date: the day of the year (doy) in ordinal dates, day of the month (dom) in calendar dates or day of the week (dow) in week dates.
Time regularly spend at paid work on a single work day, cf. man-day and workweek.
Daytime
The period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (that is, the time period from sunrise to sunset)
The time period from 06:00–18:00 (6:00 am – 6:00 pm) or 21:00 (9:00 pm) or another fixed clock period overlapping or offset from other time periods such as "morning", "afternoon", or "evening".
The time period from first-light "dawn" to last-light "dusk".
Other
A specific period of the day, which may vary by context, such as "the school day" or "the work day".
Variations in length[edit]
Further information: Leap second and Tidal acceleration
Mainly due to tidal deceleration – the Moon's gravitational pull slowing down the Earth's rotation – the Earth's rotational period is slowing.[20] Because of the way the second is defined, the mean length of a solar day is now about 86,400.002 seconds, and is increasing by about 2 milliseconds per century.[21]
Since the rotation rate of the Earth is slowing, the length of a SI second fell out of sync with a second derived from the rotational period.[20] This arose the need for leap seconds, which insert extra seconds into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).[20] Although typically 86,400 SI seconds in duration, a civil day can be either 86,401 or 86,399 SI seconds long on such a day. Other than the two-millisecond variation from tidal deceleration, other factors minutely affect the day's length, which creates an irregularity in the placement of leap seconds.[22] Leap seconds are announced in advance by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), which measures the Earth's rotation and determines whether a leap second is necessary.
Geological day lengths[edit]
Discovered by paleontologist John W. Wells, the day lengths of geological periods have been estimated by measuring sedimentation rings in coral fossils,[23][21] due to some biological systems being affected by the tide.[21] The length of a day at the Earth's formation is estimated at 6 hours.[21] Arbab I. Arbab plotted day lengths over time and found a curved line.[21] Arbab attributed this to the change of water volume present affecting Earth's rotation.[21]
Date
Geological period
Number of days per year[23]
Duration of the day
Present
Current
365
24 hours
−100 million years
Cretaceous
380
23 hours and 20 minutes
−200 million years
Triassic
390
22 hours and 40 minutes
−300 million years
Carboniferous
400
22 hours
−400 million years
Devonian
410
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Cambrian
425
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Boundaries[edit]
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For most diurnal animals, the day naturally begins at dawn and ends at sunset. Humans, with their cultural norms and scientific knowledge, have employed several different conceptions of the day's boundaries.
In the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1:5 defines a day in terms of "evening" and "morning" before recounting the creation of the Sun to illuminate it: "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
The Jewish day begins at either sunset or nightfall (when three second-magnitude stars appear).
Medieval Europe also followed this tradition, known as Florentine reckoning: In this system, a reference like "two hours into the day" meant two hours after sunset and thus times during the evening need to be shifted back one calendar day in modern reckoning.
Days such as Christmas Eve, Halloween (“All Hallows’ Eve”), and the Eve of Saint Agnes are remnants of the older pattern when holidays began during the prior evening.
The common convention among the ancient Romans,[24] ancient Chinese[25] and in modern times is for the civil day to begin at midnight, i.e. 00:00, and to last a full 24 hours until 24:00, i.e. 00:00 of the next day.
In ancient Egypt the day was reckoned from sunrise to sunrise.
Prior to 1926, Turkey had two time systems: Turkish, counting the hours from sunset, and French, counting the hours from midnight.
Parts[edit]
See also: Category:Parts of a day
Humans have divided the day in rough periods, which can have cultural implications, and other effects on humans' biological processes. The parts of the day do not have set times; they can vary by lifestyle or hours of daylight in a given place.[26]
Daytime[edit]
Main article: Daytime
Daytime is the part of the day during which sunlight directly reaches the ground, assuming that there are no obstacles. The length of daytime averages slightly more than half of the 24-hour day. Two effects make daytime on average longer than night. The Sun is not a point but has an apparent size of about 32 minutes of arc. Additionally, the atmosphere refracts sunlight in such a way that some of it reaches the ground even when the Sun is below the horizon by about 34 minutes of arc. So the first light reaches the ground when the centre of the Sun is still below the horizon by about 50 minutes of arc.[27] Thus, daytime is on average around 7 minutes longer than 12 hours.[28]
Daytime is further divided into morning, afternoon, and evening. Morning occurs between sunrise and noon.[29] Afternoon occurs between noon and sunset,[30] or between noon and the start of evening. This period of time sees human's highest body temperature,[31] an increase of traffic collisions,[32] and a decrease of productivity.[33] Evening begins around 5 or 6 pm, or when the sun sets, and ends when one goes to bed.[34][35][36]
Twilight[edit]
Main article: Twilight
Twilight is the period before sunrise and after sunset in which there is natural light but no direct sunlight.[37] The morning twilight begins at dawn and ends at sunrise, while the evening twilight begins at sunset and ends at dusk. Both periods of twilight can be divided into civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight. Civil twilight is when the sun is up to 6 degrees below the horizon; nautical when it is up to 12 degrees below, and astronomical when it is up to 18 degrees below.[38]
Night in art
Night[edit]
Main article: Night
Night is the period in which the sky is dark;[39] the period after dusk and before dawn when no light from the sun is visible.[40] Light pollution during night can impact human and animal life, for example by disrupting sleep.[41][42]
See also[edit]
Determination of the day of the week
Holiday
ISO 8601
Season, for a discussion of daylight and darkness at various latitudes
Synodic day
World Meteorological day
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daynoun [ C ] us
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A1 a period of 24 hours, especially from twelve o'clock one night to twelve o'clock the next night: January has 31 days. the days of the weekevery day He runs five miles every day. It took us almost a day to get here.the day before yesterday I saw him the day before yesterday.the day after tomorrow We leave the day after tomorrow. He was last seen alive five days ago.for days They haven't been seen for days (= for several days).in a few days I'll be seeing Pat in a few days.in a few days' time She says the protest will end in a few days' time. How's your day been? (= Have you enjoyed today?) Have a nice day!a big day I should get some sleep - tomorrow's a big day (= an important day).
A2 used to refer to the period in 24 hours when it is naturally light: a bright sunny dayall day It rained all day. These animals sleep during the day and hunt at night.
A2 the time that you usually spend at work or at school: a normal working day I work a seven-hour day. We're having to work a six-day week to cope with demand.
day off
a day when you do not have to work or do something that you normally do: I won't be in on Thursday - it's my day off.
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B1 a few days ago: Didn't I see you in the post office the other day?
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A2 used to talk about the present time, in comparison with the past: Vegetarianism is very popular these days.
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B2 in the past: In those days people used to write a lot more letters.
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B2 very soon, especially within the next few days: The baby's due any day now.
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when it is naturally light: I prefer traveling by day.
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B1 repeatedly, every day: The same problems keep coming up day after day.
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all the time: You can hear the traffic from your room day and night.
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B2 every day, or more and more as each day passes: Day by day he became weaker.
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If something changes (from) day to day, it changes often: The symptoms of the disease change from day to day.
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before each day happens: I never know what I’ll be doing from one day to the next.
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C1 a period in history: How did people communicate in the days before email?
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up to and including the present moment: To this day nobody knows what happened to him.
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More examplesFewer examplesI always like to leave my desk clear at the end of the day.We went to New York and back again all in one day.We're open every day except Sunday.She had five days off work due to illness.The soldiers marched 90 miles in three days.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Days & times of day
afternoon
afternoons
all day
am
arvo
high noon
hour
in broad daylight idiom
in the dead of night/winter idiom
last orders
night
noontime
o'clock
office hours
opening time
overnight
the witching hour
twilit
workday
working day
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Grammar
Nowadays, these days or today?We can use nowadays, these days or today as adverbs meaning ‘at the present time, in comparison with the past’: …
Idioms
all in a day's work
the best/happiest days of your life
day in day out
someone's/something's days are numbered
have had its/your day
have your day in court
in all my (born) days
in my day
in this day and age
it's not every day (that)...
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make someone's day
not be someone's day
oh my days!
the old days
one of these days
one of those days
one/some day
take it one day at a time/take each day as it comes
that'll be the day
those were the days
to the day
(Definition of day from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
day | Intermediate English
daynoun [ C ] us
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a period of 24 hours, esp. from 12 o’clock one night to 12 o’clock the next night, or the part of this period after the sun rises but before it goes down, when there is light: My husband picks up our son every day after school. In summer the days are longer and we have cookouts in the backyard. We leave on vacation the day after tomorrow.
A day is also the part of a period of 24 hours that you spend at work: He’s been working 12-hour days this week.
Days can mean a long period of time: In those days (= that period in history), people had large families.
Idioms
day after day
day and night
day by day
day in, day out
(Definition of day from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of day
day
It can be like that day that nothing happened, the storm didn't happen.
From CNN
When pain is very severe, if you have weakness or numbness or if pain goes on for more than 10 days, go to your physician.
From Huffington Post
Their investigators could be on the ground for up 10 days.
From CBS News
I imagine it's pretty insane during the day, or during particularly starry nights.
From TechCrunch
In raw numbers, that's 87 erroneous statements in five days.
From Politico
One of the injured died 23 days later.
From Philly.com
At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
From The Seattle Times
This is thanksgiving day, for him and for us.
From Los Angeles Times
If you do that, you'll be heads down for a good part of the day.
From TechCrunch
At the end of the day all those players were vindicated.
From ESPN
Students practiced as often as four days a week, during their lunch and snack periods.
From Los Angeles Times
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दिवस, 24 तासांपैकी उजेड असतानाचा काळ, शाळेत किंवा कामाच्या ठिकाणी घालवलेला वेळ…
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24 மணிநேர காலம், குறிப்பாக ஒரு இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி முதல் அடுத்த இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி வரை, அது இயற்கையாகவே ஒளி இருக்கும் போது 24 மணி நேரத்தில் காலம் குறிக்க பயன்படுத்தப்படும்…
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use day in a sentenceBiden, who has held public events less regularly, has been seen wearing a mask on 28, including on all but five days this month.In 160 words, Trump reveals how little he cares about the pandemic | Philip Bump | September 17, 2020 | Washington PostThe rules are defined day by day by people with subjective points of view.Christian Puglisi Is Closing His Influential Copenhagen Restaurants. COVID Is Only Partly to Blame | Rafael Tonon | September 17, 2020 | EaterWhen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.Timeline: The 124 times Trump has downplayed the coronavirus threat | Aaron Blake, JM Rieger | September 17, 2020 | Washington PostEarlier in the day, Redfield had said wearing a mask was more effective than a vaccine.Trump contradicts CDC director on vaccine; Biden says Americans shouldn’t trust Trump | Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostIt’s light enough to wear in the middle of the day here in the muggy South, and dries fast enough that I usually keep it on while I go overboard for a dip.The Gear That Lets Me Enjoy the Last Days of Summer | Graham Averill | September 15, 2020 | Outside OnlineHe added: “People say he deserves his day in court… Do we have enough time?”Bill Maher: Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Support Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ | Lloyd Grove | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFor many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion | Nina Strochlic | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking | M.L. Nestel | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.France Mourns—and Hunts | Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers | Stereo Williams | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe afternoon was a lovely one—the day was a perfect example of the mellowest mood of autumn.Confidence | Henry JamesEdna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinEach day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonThere are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouThe proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 | VariousSee More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for day (1 of 2)day/ (deɪ) /nounAlso called: civil day the period of time, the calendar day, of 24 hours' duration reckoned from one midnight to the nextthe period of light between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from the night(as modifier): the day shiftthe part of a day occupied with regular activity, esp work: he took a day off(sometimes plural) a period or point in time: he was a good singer in his day; in days gone by; any day nowthe period of time, the sidereal day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to a particular star. The mean sidereal day lasts 23 hours 56 minutes 4.1 seconds of the mean solar daythe period of time, the solar day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to the sun. The mean solar day is the average length of the apparent solar day and is some four minutes (3 minutes 56.5 seconds of sidereal time) longer than the sidereal daythe period of time taken by a specified planet to make one complete rotation on its axis: the Martian day(often capital) a day designated for a special observance, esp a holiday: Christmas Dayall in a day's work part of one's normal activity; no troubleat the end of the day in the final reckoningday of rest the Sabbath; Sundayend one's days to pass the end of one's lifeevery dog has his day one's luck will comein this day and age nowadaysit's early days it's too early to tell how things will turn outlate in the day very late (in a particular situation)too latethat will be the day I look forward to thatthat is most unlikely to happena time of success, recognition, power, etc: his day will soon comea struggle or issue at hand: the day is lostthe ground surface over a mine(as modifier): the day levelfrom day to day without thinking of the futurecall it a day to stop work or other activityday after day without respite; relentlesslyday by day gradually or progressively; daily: he weakened day by dayday in, day out every day and all day longfrom Day 1 or from Day One from the very beginningone of these days at some future time(modifier) of, relating to, or occurring in the day: the day shiftSee moreOrigin of day1Old English dæg; related to Old High German tag, Old Norse dagrOther words from dayRelated adjective: diurnalSee also daysBritish Dictionary definitions for Day (2 of 2)Day/ (deɪ) /nounSir Robin. 1923–2000, British radio and television journalist, noted esp for his political interviewsCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Scientific definitions for dayday[ dā ]The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Other Idioms and Phrases with daydayIn addition to the idioms beginning with dayday after dayday and nightday by dayday in court, have one'sday in, day outday offdays are numbered, one'sday to dayalso see: all in a day's workany dayapple a daybad hair daybreak of dayby the daycall it a daycarry the daydifferent as night and daydog daysevery dog has its dayfield dayfor days on endforever and a dayfrom this day forwardgood dayhad its dayhappy as the day is longheavenly daysin all one's born daysin the cold light of dayin this day and agelate in the daymake a day of itmake one's dayname the daynight and daynot give someone the time of daynot one's dayone of these daysorder of the daypass the time (of day)plain as dayrainy dayred-letter dayRome wasn't built in a daysalad dayssave the dayseen better dayssee the light of daythat'll be the daythe other daytime of daytomorrow is another daywin through (the day)See More OriginsThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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A1 a period of 24 hours: the days of the week January has 31 days. Matthew runs five miles every day. I saw her the day before yesterday.
More examplesFewer examplesShe visits his grave every day.As it happens, her birthday is the day after mine.The store is open 24 hours a day.It's been raining hard all day.It's warm during the day, but it can get quite cold at night.
day noun
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A2 the period during the day when there is light from the sun: a bright, sunny day We've been travelling all day. These animals sleep during the day and hunt at night.
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A2 the time that you usually spend at work or school: She's had a very busy day at the office.
the other day
B1 a few days ago: I saw Terry the other day.
day after day
every day for a long period of time: Day after day they marched through the mountains.
one day
A2 used to talk about something that happened in the past: One day, I came home to find my windows smashed.
one day/some day/one of these days
B1 used to talk about something you think will happen in the future: One of these days I'll tell her what really happened.
days
used to talk about a particular period of time when something happened or existed: in my younger days This book was written before the days of computers.
B1 a long time: I haven't seen Jack for days.
these days
A2 used to talk about the present time: I don't go out much these days.
in those days
B2 used to talk about a period in the past: In those days, no-one had a TV set.
the old days
a period in the past
See also
April Fool's Day
Boxing Day
Christmas Day
at the end of the day
field day
Independence Day
Mother's Day
New Year's Day
open day
polling day
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Valentine's Day
Idioms
call it a day
it's early days
make sb's day
save the day
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24 மணிநேர காலம், குறிப்பாக ஒரு இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி முதல் அடுத்த இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணி வரை, அது இயற்கையாகவே ஒளி இருக்கும் போது 24 மணி நேரத்தில் காலம் குறிக்க பயன்படுத்தப்படும்…
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day (24 HOURS)
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Contents
1 Translingual
1.1 Symbol
2 English
2.1 Alternative forms
2.2 Etymology
2.3 Pronunciation
2.4 Noun
2.4.1 Hypernyms
2.4.2 Hyponyms
2.4.3 Holonyms
2.4.4 Derived terms
2.4.5 Related terms
2.4.6 Descendants
2.4.7 Translations
2.4.8 References
2.5 Verb
2.6 See also
2.7 Anagrams
3 Azerbaijani
3.1 Etymology
3.2 Pronunciation
3.3 Noun
3.3.1 Declension
3.3.2 Derived terms
3.3.3 Descendants
3.4 References
3.5 Further reading
4 Cebuano
4.1 Etymology
4.2 Pronunciation
4.3 Noun
5 Hawaiian Creole
5.1 Etymology
5.2 Pronunciation
5.3 Noun
6 Kalasha
6.1 Verb
7 Middle English
7.1 Etymology 1
7.1.1 Alternative forms
7.1.2 Pronunciation
7.1.3 Noun
7.1.3.1 Antonyms
7.1.3.2 Related terms
7.1.3.3 Descendants
7.1.3.4 References
7.2 Etymology 2
7.2.1 Pronoun
8 Scots
8.1 Etymology
8.2 Pronunciation
8.3 Noun
9 Tagalog
9.1 Pronunciation
9.2 Noun
10 Vietnamese
10.1 Pronunciation
10.2 Verb
Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
day
(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
daie, daye (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”), Gothic (dags, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
enPR: dā, IPA(key): /deɪ̯/
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Homophone: dey
Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun[edit]
day (plural days)
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
Synonyms: daylight, upsun; 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.
Synonym: nychthemeron
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. […]”
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.
Hypernyms[edit]
Hypernyms of daymonthtimeweekyear
Hyponyms[edit]
Apple Gifting Daybad hair dayBastille DaybirthdayBoxing Daybridal daycalendar dayCanada DayChristmas Daycivil dayCommitment Dayday gameDay of AtonementDay of Judgmentday of reckoningday of restDays of Awedays of graceD-Daydollar daydoomsdayduvet dayfeast dayfield dayflag dayFlag DayforedayFridayheydayholidayholy dayit is not every dayit's not every dayjudgment daylifedaylovedayMay DaymiddayMondayname dayNew Year's Daynoondayone daypaydaypolling dayrace day, racedayrainy dayrest daysaint's daySaturdayscambling daysick daysolar daysomedaySt. Andrew's DaySt. David's DaySt. George's DaySt. Patrick's DaySt. Stephen's DaySundaysynodic daythe other dayThursdayTuesdayTwelfth DayVictoria daywedding dayWednesdayweekdayworkdayworking day
Holonyms[edit]
calendar monthcalendar yearhebdomadtriduumweek
Derived terms[edit]
0-day10-day measles3-day measles400-day clock7-day fever7-day measles90-day wondera broken clock is right twice a dayaccess dayaccount dayace in a daya cold day in hella cold day in Julya day after the faira day late and a dollar shortahemeral dayall-dayall day, all-dayall-day suckerall in a day's workan apple a dayan apple a day keeps the doctor at bayan apple a day keeps the doctor awayanother day, another dollaranother day in paradiseany dayany day nowany day of the weekany day of the week and twice on Sundayany day of the week and twice on Sundaysas the day is longa stopped clock is right twice a dayat the end of the dayaway dayaway-day girla year and a dayback in dayback in the daybad old daysBaker daybanyan daybasket daysb-daybeach daybeginning of daybe on daysbig daybin daybirth-dayblack letter dayblack-letter dayborrowed daysborrowing daysboxing dayBreak O'Daybreak of daybusiness daybutton dayby dayby the daycall it a daycan do this all daycanicular dayscarry the daycatch of the daychair dayscheat dayChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsclear as daycold day in Hellcontango daycontinuation daycooling-off daycould go all daydailydan daydawn of a new dayday afterday after dayday-after recall testday after tomorrowday-ageday-age creationismday-age creationistday-agerday and ageday-and-dateday and nightday at the beachdaybeamday bed, daybedday before yesterdayday-biterday-blindday blindday-blindnessday blindnessday boarderdayboatday bookdaybookdayboyday boydaybreakday-breakday by dayday cabday care, day centre, daycentreday care centerday caseday centreday-cleanday coalday count conventionday creamday-dawnday dotdaydreamday-eeday fineday-finedayflyday for nightdaygirlDay-Gloday gone byday hospitalday in, day outday in courtday in the sundayjamasday jobday laborday laborer, day labourerday larkday letterdaylightday lilydaylilydaylongdaymaredaymarkday-mothday nameday-netday-neutralday-nighterday of daysday of daysday offday of judgementday of judgmentday of the ropeday-oldday oneday orderday or nightday outday-over-dayday packdaypackdaypartday patientday-peepday pupilday releaseday residueday returnday roomdaysdaysackdaysaildaysailerday-scholarday schoolday shapeday shiftday-sightday signdayslongdays of wine and rosesdays of yoredayspringdaystarday the music dieddaytimeday timeday-timeday to dayday-to-dayday-to-nightday-tradeday trade, daytradeday-traderday trader, daytraderday tradingday tripday-tripday-tripperday tripperdaywarddaywearday workday-workday workerday-workerday-year principleD-daydegree-daydegree daydish of the dayditch daydog daydog-day cicadadog daysdon't give up the day jobdon't give up your day jobdon't quit your day jobdoona daydouble daydress-down daydumping dayearly day motionearly daysEarth dayE-dayeight-day clockEmber dayend of dayend of the dayend one's daysend one's dayseven a stopped clock is right twice a dayeverydayevery-dayevery dayevery day is a school dayevery day of the weekevery day of the week and twice on Sundayevery day of the week and twice on Sundaysevery dog has his dayevery dog has its dayevery dog must have his dayevery dog must have its dayevil dayeye of dayfat dayfather-daughter dayfifth-day fitsFirst-dayfirst-day coverfirst day coverfirst notice dayfirst order of the dayfish and company stink after three daysfive-day feverfive-day weekfor daysforever and a dayfree dayfrom day to dayfrom one day to the nextFundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsgag-a-daygame daygarbage daygive the time of dayglory daysgo about one's dayGod be with the daysgood daygood old dayshalcyon dayshalf dayhappy dayshappy dayshappy day scenariohave a nice dayhave a nice day syndromehave had its dayhave had one's dayhave had one's day under the sunhave seen better dayshave seen one's dayheat dayhigh days and holidaysholidayholy day of obligationhump dayI don't have all dayif a dayif one is a dayI haven't got all dayin all one's born daysindependence dayin one's born daysin one's dayINSET dayin the cold light of dayin this day and agein three daysintradayit's early daysjudgement dayjudicial dayJulian daylaced day-mothLady-daylast daylate in the daylatter-dayLatter-day Saintlaw daylawful daylay dayleap dayleg daylength of dayslight daylive to fight another dayLord's daylunar daymake a day of itmake one's daymake someone's dayman dayman-daymarket daymatch dayMay-day sweepM-daymean solar dayme daymembers' daymiddle daymodern-daymuck-up daymufti daynaked as the day one was bornname the daynatal daynational daynext-daynight and daynight-and-daynine days wondernine-day wonder, nine day wonder, nine days' wonderninety daysninety-day wondernot look a day overnow-a-daysnow a daysoff dayoh my daysold daysone-dayone-day cricketone-day internationalone-day matchone of these daysone of these daysone of those daysone's days are numberedopen dayorder of the daypajama daypaper daypass the time of daypasture day mothpay dayped daypeep of daypersonal daypicture dayplain as dayPOETS daypoets daypoets' daypoet's daypost daypresent-dayprivilege dayquarter-dayquarter dayqueen for a dayrag dayrain dayred dayred letter dayred-letter dayreturn dayRome wasn't built in a dayRome wasn't burned in a dayrue the dayrule the dayrunning daySabba-daySabbath-daySabber-daysafe daysalad dayssame-daysave something for a rainy daysave the dayschool daysea daysea-daysee the daysee the light of dayseize the dayseven-day wonderSeventh-day AdventismSeventh-day AdventistSeventh-day Adventist Churchship's daysshow daysidereal daysix bob a day touristskier dayslow news daysnow daysolar daysome daysome days a diamond, some days a stonespeech daysports daystellar daysufficient unto the day is the evil thereofsummer's daysunny-day floodingsweat like a nigger on election daytag daytake one day at a timeteacher work dayterm daythat'll be the daythe daythe day beforethe next daythese daysthose were the daysthree day eventingthree-day feverthree-day measlesthree days agothree day sicknessthree-day sicknessticket daytide daytime of dayto-daytodaytoday is a good day to dietomorrow is another dayto one's dying dayto the dayto this daytwelfth day caketwenty-four hours a daytwo days after tomorrowuntil one's dying dayvacation dayvarnishing daywake up one daywashing dayweather daywedding-dayweek-dayweekdaywe haven't got all daywhat a lovely daywhat day is it todaywin the daywithout daywoman-daywork-a-dayworkadaywork dayyesterdayyou learn something new every dayzero-dayzero day
Related terms[edit]
FridayMondaySaturdaySundayThursdayTuesdayWednesday
Descendants[edit]
Sranan Tongo: dei
Translations[edit]
See day/translations § Noun.
References[edit]
Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb[edit]
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[edit]
(days of the week) day of the week; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
Sabbath
calendar
Anagrams[edit]
d'ya, y'ad, yad
Azerbaijani[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Common Turkic *dāy.
Pronunciation[edit]
IPA(key): [dɑj]
Audio (Baku)(file)
Noun[edit]
day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)
colt, foal
Declension[edit]
Declension of day
singular
plural
nominative
day
daylar
definite accusative
dayı
dayları
dative
daya
daylara
locative
dayda
daylarda
ablative
daydan
daylardan
definite genitive
dayın
dayların
Possessive forms of day
nominative
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayım
daylarım
sənin (“your”)
dayın
dayların
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayı
dayları
bizim (“our”)
dayımız
daylarımız
sizin (“your”)
dayınız
daylarınız
onların (“their”)
dayı or dayları
dayları
accusative
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayımı
daylarımı
sənin (“your”)
dayını
daylarını
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayını
daylarını
bizim (“our”)
dayımızı
daylarımızı
sizin (“your”)
dayınızı
daylarınızı
onların (“their”)
dayını or daylarını
daylarını
dative
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayıma
daylarıma
sənin (“your”)
dayına
daylarına
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayına
daylarına
bizim (“our”)
dayımıza
daylarımıza
sizin (“your”)
dayınıza
daylarınıza
onların (“their”)
dayına or daylarına
daylarına
locative
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayımda
daylarımda
sənin (“your”)
dayında
daylarında
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayında
daylarında
bizim (“our”)
dayımızda
daylarımızda
sizin (“your”)
dayınızda
daylarınızda
onların (“their”)
dayında or daylarında
daylarında
ablative
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayımdan
daylarımdan
sənin (“your”)
dayından
daylarından
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayından
daylarından
bizim (“our”)
dayımızdan
daylarımızdan
sizin (“your”)
dayınızdan
daylarınızdan
onların (“their”)
dayından or daylarından
daylarından
genitive
singular
plural
mənim (“my”)
dayımın
daylarımın
sənin (“your”)
dayının
daylarının
onun (“his/her/its”)
dayının
daylarının
bizim (“our”)
dayımızın
daylarımızın
sizin (“your”)
dayınızın
daylarınızın
onların (“their”)
dayının or daylarının
daylarının
Derived terms[edit]
dayça
Descendants[edit]
→ Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)
References[edit]
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading[edit]
“day” in Obastan.com.
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Initial clipping of inday.
Pronunciation[edit]
(General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
Rhymes: -aɪ
Hyphenation: day
Noun[edit]
day
(colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
A familiar address to a daughter.
Hawaiian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English day.
Pronunciation[edit]
IPA(key): /deɪ/, /deː/
Noun[edit]
day
day
Kalasha[edit]
Verb[edit]
day
I am
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.
Alternative forms[edit]
dai, dæi, dey, daȝ, dæȝ, dei, daye, daȝȝ, daȝh, daiȝ, *dah
Pronunciation[edit]
(Early ME) IPA(key): /daj/, /dɛj/
IPA(key): /dæi̯/
Noun[edit]
day (plural dayes or days or dawes)
day (composed of 24 hours)
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 […]
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.
daylight, sunlight
epoch, age, period
a certain day
Antonyms[edit]
nyght
Related terms[edit]
Childermasse daydaylyende-dayendyng dayFridayholidaylawdaylovedayMondayPaske daySaterdaySunnendayTewesdayThursdayWednesdayweke-dayyesterday
Descendants[edit]
English: day
Scots: day
Yola: die, dei, dey, daie
References[edit]
“dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
day
Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English day.
Pronunciation[edit]
IPA(key): /dɪ/, /de/
Noun[edit]
day (plural days)
day
(in the definite singular) today
A'm sorry, A've no seen Angus the day.I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angus today.
Tagalog[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
IPA(key): /ˈdaj/, [ˈdaɪ̯]
Noun[edit]
day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)
Alternative spelling of 'day
Vietnamese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zaj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [jaj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ja(ː)j˧˧]
Verb[edit]
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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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024day /deɪ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
the time between sunrise and sunset:I work most of the day at the office and most of the night at home.
the light of day; daylight:In Tanzania the days are as long as the nights.
Astronomya division of time equal to 24 hours, from one midnight to the next:seven days in one week.
Astronomya similar division of time for another planet:the Martian day.
the portion of a day in which one works:put in an eight-hour day.
a particular date, period, or time:in olden days; What day is her birthday?
a time thought to provide benefit or opportunity:His day will come.
Usually, days. period of life:His days are numbered.
a particular period of time:In my day we called them motorcars.
[ often: the + ~] the contest or battle going on at the moment:to win the day.
Idioms
Idioms call it a day, to stop working for the rest of the day:Let's call it a day; we've worked eighteen hours.
Idioms day in, day out, every day without fail; regularly. Also, day in and day out:Her constant nagging, day in and day out, is driving me crazy.
make someone's day, to make someone very happy or pleased:Seeing my kids smile just makes my day.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024day
(dā),USA pronunciation n.
the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset:Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities hadto be carried on during the day.
the light of day; daylight:The owl sleeps by day and feeds by night.
Astronomy
Also called mean solar day. a division of time equal to 24 hours and representing the average length of the period during which the earth makes one rotation on its axis.
Also called solar day. a division of time equal to the time elapsed between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the sun.
Also called civil day. a division of time equal to 24 hours but reckoned from one midnight to the next. Cf. lunar day, sidereal day.
Astronomyan analogous division of time for a planet other than the earth:the Martian day.
the portion of a day allotted to work:an eight-hour day.
a day on which something occurs:the day we met.
(often cap.) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance:New Year's Day.
a time considered as propitious or opportune:His day will come.
a day of contest or the contest itself:to win the day.
Often, days. a particular time or period:the present day; in days of old.
Usually, days. period of life or activity:His days are numbered.
period of existence, power, or influence:in the day of the dinosaurs.
Architecturelight1 (def. 19a).
Idioms call it a day, to stop one's activity for the day or for the present; quit temporarily:After rewriting the paper, she decided to call it a day.
Idioms day in, day out, every day without fail; regularly:They endured the noise and dirt of the city day in, day out.Also, day in and day out.
bef. 950; Middle English; Old English dæg; cognate with German Tag
Day
(dā),USA pronunciation n.
Clarence (Shep•ard)
(shep′ərd),USA pronunciation 1874–1935, U.S. author.
Biographical Dorothy, 1897–1980, U.S. Roman Catholic social activist, journalist, and publisher.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
day /deɪ/ n Also called: civil day the period of time, the calendar day, of 24 hours' duration reckoned from one midnight to the next the period of light between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from the night (as modifier): the day shift the part of a day occupied with regular activity, esp work: he took a day off(sometimes plural) a period or point in time: he was a good singer in his day, in days gone by, any day now the period of time, the sidereal day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to a particular star. The mean sidereal day lasts 23 hours 56 minutes 4.1 seconds of the mean solar day the period of time, the solar day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to the sun. The mean solar day is the average length of the apparent solar day and is some four minutes (3 minutes 56.5 seconds of sidereal time) longer than the sidereal day the period of time taken by a specified planet to make one complete rotation on its axis: the Martian day(often capital) a day designated for a special observance, esp a holiday: Christmas Dayall in a day's work ⇒ part of one's normal activity; no troubleat the end of the day ⇒ in the final reckoningday of rest ⇒ the Sabbath; Sundayend one's days ⇒ to pass the end of one's lifeevery dog has his day ⇒ one's luck will comein this day and age ⇒ nowadaysit's early days ⇒ it's too early to tell how things will turn outlate in the day ⇒ very late (in a particular situation) too latethat will be the day ⇒ I look forward to that that is most unlikely to happen a time of success, recognition, power, etc: his day will soon come a struggle or issue at hand: the day is lost the ground surface over a mine (as modifier): the day levelfrom day to day ⇒ without thinking of the futurecall it a day ⇒ to stop work or other activityday after day ⇒ without respite; relentlesslyday by day ⇒ gradually or progressively; daily: he weakened day by dayday in, day out ⇒ every day and all day longfrom Day 1, from Day One ⇒ from the very beginningone of these days ⇒ at some future time(modifier) of, relating to, or occurring in the day: the day shiftRelated adjective(s): diurnalSee also daysEtymology: Old English dæg; related to Old High German tag, Old Norse dagr
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Day /deɪ/ n Sir Robin. 1923–2000, British radio and television journalist, noted esp for his political interviews
'day' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
A, a
- ADO
- Aaronic
- Acadia
- Advent Sunday
- Adventist
- Agnes
- Agnon
- Aidan
- Alani
- Alban
- Albertus Magnus
- All Fools' Day
- All Saints' Day
- All Souls' Day
- Allhallowmas
- Allhallows
- Allhallowtide
- Aloysius
- Ambrose
- Anne
- Annunciation
- Anthony
- Anthony of Padua
- Anzac Day
- April Fools' Day
- April fool
- Arabia
- Arbor Day
- Armed Forces Day
- Armistice Day
- Asarah Betevet
- Ascension Day
- Ascot
- Ash Wednesday
- Ashura
- Assur
- Assyrian
- Augustine
- Bar Mitzvah
- Barnabas
- Bartholomew
- Basil
- Beltane
- a
- abba
- act
- active
- ad
- adjourn
In Lists: Top 2000 English words, Time, PET Vocabulary List - D, more...Synonyms: 24-hour period, 24 hours, date, daytime, daylight, more...Collocations: a [school, work] day, work the day shift, [had, am having] a [bad, good] day, more...
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__a hot summer day, on or in?
... if he is a day
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... logged on each day?
.... a day
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"? (Without 'on')
...17th March is the day he died.: correct reading
...although they are getting less wrong every day
...and that was to one day enable me to visit...
…if we did not have it before our eyes to-day among tribes.
...live for the day when
...one day at a time
...one day...the other day
...The day will come when
...they worry about (it) every day.
'...it's all about my day and you were/have been in it'
''Have a good day at work'' - one last detail
''Optional holiday'' Vs ''Optional work day''
'at the end of the day'
'Bathe regularly three to five times a day' [mud facial mask]
'by/until' '7:00/Thursday' [with time, day]
'I've been in work all day.'
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'on/ in' date [month day year]
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