day (English, noun)
Pronunciation: enpr: dā
tags: General-American
Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /deɪ/
tags: General-Australian
ipa: /dæɪ/
tags: Canada
ipa: /deɪ/
tags: Canada
ipa: [deː]
tags: Canada
ipa: [dɛj]
tags: British
Southern
Standard
ipa: [dɛj]
homophone: Day
homophone: dey
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English day
English day
Inherited 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 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (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, Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
Definitions: examples: text: day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.
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text: 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,[…].
ref: 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:
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synonyms: daylight
daytime
antonyms: night
nighttime
glosses: The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
synonyms: nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
synonyms: nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
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.
examples: text: I've been here for two days and a bit.
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synonyms: nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
examples: text: Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
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topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
tags: informal
examples: text: The day begins at midnight.
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text: Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
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synonyms: day
glosses: 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.
examples: text: A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
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topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The rotational period of a planet.
examples: text: I worked two days last week.
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text: “[…]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.[…]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
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glosses: The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
examples: text: Christmas Day
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text: Remembrance Day
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glosses: An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
examples: text: every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
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text: 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.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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text: If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
ref: 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:
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text: 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.
ref: 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother^([200]), Vanguard Press, →ISBN:
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synonyms: era
epoch
era
glosses: A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
examples: text: The day belonged to the Allies.
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glosses: A period of contention of a day or less.
Forms: form: days
tags: plural
form: daie
tags: alternative
form: daye
tags: alternative
Synonyms: word: day
word: yearday
Hypernyms: word: month
word: time
word: week
word: year
word: period
Hyponyms: word: Apple Gifting Day
word: arm day
word: Ayurveda Day
word: back day
word: bad hair day
word: Bastille Day
word: birthday
word: Boxing Day
word: brain day
word: bridal day
word: calendar day
word: Canada Day
word: cardio day
word: chest day
word: Christmas Day
word: civil day
word: Commitment Day
word: core day
word: Corregidor Day
word: day game
word: Day of Atonement
word: Day of Judgment
word: day of reckoning
word: day of rest
word: Days of Awe
word: days of grace
word: D-Day
word: dollar day
word: doomsday
word: duvet day
word: Easter Day
word: feast day
word: field day
word: Flag Day
word: flag day
word: foreday
word: Friday
word: heyday
word: holiday
word: holy day
word: holy day of obligation
word: I-Day
word: Indigenous Peoples' Day
word: judgment day
word: lifeday
word: loveday
word: lower body day
word: May Day
word: midday
word: Monday
word: Mothering Day
word: name day
word: New Year's Day
word: noonday
word: one day
word: payday
word: polling day
word: Quitter's Day
word: raceday
word: race day
word: rainy day
word: rest day
word: saint's day
word: Saturday
word: scambling day
word: sick day
word: solar day
word: someday
word: St. Andrew's Day
word: St. David's Day
word: St. George's Day
word: St. John's Day
word: St. Patrick's Day
word: St. Pattie's Day
word: St. Patty's Day
word: St. Stephen's Day
word: Sunday
word: synodic day
word: the other day
word: Thursday
word: total body day
word: Trafalgar Day
word: Tuesday
word: Twelfth Day
word: twenty-four hour day
word: upper body day
word: Victoria day
word: wedding day
word: Wednesday
word: weekday
word: workday
word: working day
word: workout day
word: anniversary
word: deathday
word: festival
word: month's mind
word: twelvemonth's mind
word: unbirthday
word: year's mind
word: mufti day
tags: Commonwealth
word: personal day
word: school day
word: washday
Meronyms: word: morning
word: midday
word: noon
word: afternoon
word: evening
word: night
word: midnight
word: postmidnight hours
word: daytime
word: nighttime
word: twilight
word: dawn
word: dusk
word: hour
word: minute
word: second
Holonyms: word: calendar month
word: calendar year
word: hebdomad
word: triduum
word: week
word: fortnight
word: halfmonth
word: month
word: year
Coordinate terms: millennium
century
decade
year
month
week
hour
minute
moment
second
millisecond
microsecond
nanosecond
picosecond
femtosecond
attosecond
zeptosecond
yoctosecond
Derived terms: word: 0-day
word: 10-day measles
word: 24-hour day
word: 3-day measles
word: 400-day clock
word: 7-day fever
word: 7-day measles
word: 90-day wonder
word: a broken clock is right twice a day
word: access day
word: account day
word: ace in a day
word: a cold day in hell
word: a cold day in July
word: a day after the fair
word: a day late and a dollar short
word: ahemeral day
word: Alaska Day
word: Alien Day
word: all day
word: all-day
word: all-day sucker
word: all in a day's work
word: all one's born days
word: an apple a day
word: an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
word: an apple a day keeps the doctor away
word: another day, another dollar
word: another day in paradise
word: any day
word: any day now
word: any day of the week
word: any day of the week and twice on Sunday
word: any day of the week and twice on Sundays
word: as the day is long
word: a stopped clock is right twice a day
word: at the end of the day
word: away-day
word: away day
word: away-day girl
word: a year and a day
word: back in day
word: back in the day
word: bad old days
word: Baker day
word: banyan day
word: basket days
word: Bataan Day
word: b-day
word: beach day
word: beginning of day
word: be on days
word: big day
word: bin day
word: birth-day
word: black day
word: black-letter day
word: black letter day
word: Bloomsday
word: Bonifacio Day
word: borrowed days
word: borrowing days
word: boxing day
word: Break O'Day
word: break of day
word: business day
word: button day
word: by day
word: by the day
word: call it a day
word: call it half a day
word: can do this all day
word: canicular days
word: carry the day
word: catch of the day
word: centiday
word: chair days
word: cheat day
word: Chewidden Day
word: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
word: clear as day
word: cold day in Hell
word: contango day
word: continuation day
word: cooling-off day
word: could go all day
word: count one's days
word: dage
word: daily
word: dan day
word: darty
word: dawn of a new day
word: day after
word: day after day
word: day-after recall test
word: day after tomorrow
word: day-age
word: day-age creationism
word: day-age creationist
word: day-ager
word: day and age
word: day-and-date
word: day and night
word: day at the beach
word: day beacon
word: daybeam
word: day bed
word: daybed
word: day before yesterday
word: day-biter
word: day blind
word: day-blind
word: day-blindness
word: day blindness
word: day boarder
word: dayboat
word: day book
word: daybook
word: day boy
word: dayboy
word: daybreak
word: day-break
word: day by day
word: day cab
word: day care
word: day care center
word: daycarer
word: day case
word: daycase
word: daycation
word: day center
word: daycentre
word: day centre
word: day-clean
word: daycoach
word: day coal
word: daycore
word: day count convention
word: day cream
word: day-dawn
word: day dot
word: daydream
word: day-ee
word: dayer
word: day fine
word: day-fine
word: dayflower
word: dayfly
word: dayflying
word: day for night
word: dayful
word: day gecko
word: dayger
word: daygirl
word: Day-Glo
word: dayglow
word: day gone by
word: dayhike
word: day hospital
word: day in court
word: day in, day out
word: day in the sun
word: dayjamas
word: day job
word: day labor
word: day laborer
word: day labour
word: day labourer
word: day lark
word: daylength
word: dayless
word: day letter
word: day level
word: daylife
word: daylight
word: daylike
word: day lily
word: daylily
word: daylong
word: day-man
word: day man
word: daymare
word: daymark
word: daymeal
word: day-moth
word: day name
word: day-net
word: day-neutral
word: day-nighter
word: day nursery
word: day of days
word: day of doom
word: day off
word: day of judgement
word: day of judgment
word: day of the rope
word: Day of Valor
word: day-old
word: day one
word: day order
word: day or night
word: day out
word: day-over-day
word: day pack
word: daypack
word: daypart
word: day patient
word: day-peep
word: day pupil
word: day release
word: day residue
word: day return
word: dayrise
word: day room
word: dayroom
word: days
word: daysack
word: days ago
word: daysail
word: daysailer
word: daysailing
word: daysailor
word: day-scholar
word: day school
word: day shape
word: dayshield
word: day shift
word: dayside
word: day-sight
word: daysight
word: day sign
word: daysleeper
word: dayslong
word: daysman
word: days of wine and roses
word: days of yore
word: dayspring
word: days sales outstanding
word: daystar
word: daysworth
word: day the music died
word: daytime
word: day time
word: day-time
word: day-to-day
word: day to day
word: day-to-night
word: day trade
word: daytrade
word: day-trade
word: day trader
word: day-trader
word: daytrader
word: day trading
word: daytrip
word: day trip
word: day-trip
word: day-tripper
word: day tripper
word: daywalk
word: daywalker
word: dayward
word: daywear
word: day-work
word: day work
word: daywork
word: dayworker
word: day worker
word: day-worker
word: day-year principle
word: D-day
word: deathday
word: deciday
word: degree day
word: degree—day
word: dish of the day
word: ditch day
word: dog-day
word: dog day cicada
word: dog days
word: don't give up the day job
word: don't give up your day job
word: don't quit your day job
word: doona day
word: double day
word: dress-down day
word: dumping day
word: early day motion
word: early days
word: Earth day
word: E-day
word: eight-day clock
word: eight days a week
word: Ember day
word: end of day
word: end of the day
word: end one's days
word: even a stopped clock is right twice a day
word: every-day
word: everyday
word: every day
word: every day is a school day
word: every day of the week
word: every day of the week and twice on Sunday
word: every day of the week and twice on Sundays
word: every dog has his day
word: every dog has its day
word: every dog must have his day
word: every dog must have its day
word: evil day
word: Evolution Day
word: eye of day
word: fair as the day
word: fat day
word: father-daughter day
word: fifth-day fits
word: first-day
word: First-day
word: first day cover
word: first-day cover
word: first notice day
word: first order of the day
word: fish and company stink after three days
word: five-a-day
word: five-day fever
word: five-day week
word: for days
word: forever and a day
word: free day
word: one day to the next
word: full-body day
word: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
word: gag-a-day
word: game day
word: gameday
word: gangday
word: garbage day
word: give the time of day
word: glory days
word: go about one's day
word: God be with the days
word: good day
word: good old days
word: gym day
word: hackday
word: haggaday
word: halcyon days
word: half day
word: happy days
word: happy day scenario
word: have a nice day
word: have a nice day syndrome
word: have had its day
word: have had one's day
word: have had one's day under the sun
word: have seen better days
word: have seen one's day
word: heat day
word: heigh-day
word: highday
word: high days and holidays
word: holiday
word: holy day
word: holy day of obligation
word: honest as the day
word: hump day
word: I don't have all day
word: if a day
word: if one is a day
word: I haven't got all day
word: in all one's born days
word: Independence Day
word: independence day
word: in one's born days
word: in one's day
word: INSET day
word: in someone's day
word: interday
word: International Day of the Girl
word: International Day of the Girl Child
word: in the cold light of day
word: in this day and age
word: in three days
word: intraday
word: it is not every day
word: it's early days
word: it's not every day
word: judgement day
word: judgment day
word: judicial day
word: Julian day
word: kiloday
word: laced day-moth
word: Lady-day
word: last day
word: late in the day
word: latter-day
word: Latter-day Saint
word: law day
word: lawful day
word: lay day
word: leap day
word: leg day
word: length of days
word: light day
word: live to fight another day
word: Lord's Day
word: Lord's day
word: lunar day
word: make a day of it
word: make one's day
word: make someone's day
word: man-day
word: man day
word: market day
word: match day
word: May-day sweep
word: M-day
word: mean solar day
word: me day
word: members' day
word: middle day
word: modern-day
word: muck-up day
word: mufti day
word: multiday
word: naked as the day one entered the world
word: naked as the day one was born
word: name day
word: name the day
word: natal day
word: national day
word: National Heroes Day
word: neck day
word: next-day
word: night-and-day
word: night and day
word: nine days wonder
word: nine days' wonder
word: nine-day wonder
word: nine day wonder
word: ninety days
word: ninety-day wonder
word: Ninoy Aquino Day
word: nonday
word: not look a day over
word: now a days
word: now-a-days
word: Octave Day of Easter
word: off day
word: oh my days
word: old days
word: one-day
word: one-day cricket
word: one-day international
word: one-day match
word: one of these days
word: one of those days
word: one's days are numbered
word: open day
word: Orange Shirt Day
word: order of the day
word: pajama day
word: paper day
word: pass the time of day
word: pasture day moth
word: pay day
word: ped day
word: peep o' day
word: peep of day
word: personal day
word: person-day
word: picture day
word: plain as day
word: playday
word: poets day
word: POETS day
word: poet's day
word: poets' day
word: post day
word: present-day
word: privilege day
word: quarter-day
word: quarter day
word: queen for a day
word: rag day
word: rain day
word: rebirthday
word: red day
word: red flag day
word: red-letter
word: red-letter day
word: red letter day
word: return day
tags: dated
word: Rome was not built in a day
word: Rome wasn't built in a day
word: Rome wasn't burned in a day
word: rue the day
word: rule the day
word: running day
word: Sabba-day
word: Sabbath-day
word: Sabber-day
word: safe day
word: salad days
word: same-day
word: same day lay
word: same-day lay
word: save something for a rainy day
word: save the day
word: schoolday
word: school day
word: Scout Official for a Day
word: seaday
word: sea-day
word: sea day
word: second day cover
word: the day
word: the light of day
word: seize the day
word: seven-day
word: seven-day wonder
word: Seventh-day
word: Seventh-day Adventism
word: Seventh-day Adventist
word: Seventh-day Adventist Church
word: Seward's Day
word: ship's days
word: show day
word: sidereal day
word: six bob a day tourist
word: skier day
word: slow news day
word: snow day
word: solar day
word: some day
word: somedays
word: some days a diamond, some days a stone
word: speech day
word: sports day
word: Star Wars Day
word: stellar day
word: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
word: summer's day
word: sunny-day flooding
word: sweat like a nigger on election day
word: tag day
word: take one day at a time
word: teacher work day
word: tenday
word: term day
word: that'll be the day
word: the day before
word: the last day
word: the next day
word: these days
word: those were the days
word: three day eventing
word: three-day fever
word: three-day measles
word: three days ago
word: three-day sickness
word: three day sickness
word: ticket day
word: tide day
word: time of day
word: to-day
word: today
word: today is a good day to die
word: tomorrow is another day
word: to one's dying day
word: to the day
word: to this day
word: twelfth day cake
word: twelfth-day cake
word: twenty-four hours a day
word: two-a-day
word: two days after tomorrow
word: Twosday
word: until one's dying day
word: vacation day
word: varnishing day
word: V-E Day
word: Victoria Day
word: V-J Day
word: Waffle Day
word: wake up one day
word: washday
word: washing day
word: weather day
word: wedding-day
word: week-day
word: weekday
word: we haven't got all day
word: what a lovely day
word: what day is it today
word: win the day
word: without day
word: woman-day
word: work-a-day
word: workaday
word: work day
word: yearday
word: yesterday
word: you learn something new every day
word: zero-day
word: zero day
Related terms: word: Sunday
word: Monday
word: Tuesday
word: Wednesday
word: Thursday
word: Friday
word: Saturday
word: sol