yearday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeardays
form: year-day
form: year day
form: year's day
Etymology: From Middle English ȝereday, ȝerdai (“anniversary”), from Old English *ġēardæġ (compare Old English ġeārdagas (“days of yore”)), from Proto-West Germanic *jāradag (“day of the year, yearly day”), from Proto-Germanic *jēradagaz, equivalent to year + day. Cognate with West Frisian jierdei (“birthday”), Dutch jaardag (“anniversary, birthday”), German Jahrtag (“anniversary”).
Senses: examples: text: The Second Advent of Christ to remove to heaven his waiting people takes place at the end of the yearday sixth vial in accordance with his personal announcement, […]
ref: 1887, Michael Baxter, Forty coming wonders:
text: It was reported that the Vice-President and Mrs. Dowling and the Secretary and Mrs. McDougall were to represent the Scottish Institute at the Accountants' Yearday of the Nederlands Instituut van Accountants and at the Silver Jubilee celebrations in Düsseldorf […]
ref: 1956, The Accountant's Magazine, volume 60, page 584:
text: The 14th Academic Yearday of the Medical Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch will be held on 6-7 August in the C. R. Louw Theatre, Sanlamhof, Bellville, Cape.
ref: 1970, SAMT, page 881:
text: In a foregoing piece (a week ago in this same mirthboke^([sic])) I wrote anent the ninehundredth yearday of the Clash of Hastings; […]
ref: 1994, originally 1966, Robert Lawrence Trask, Language Change, page 198:
glosses: Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
synonyms: word: anniversary
extra: a day occurring in a yearly cycle
examples: text: Today was her grandchild's yearday. Every year on the day the Little was born, the Littles celebrated their yearday. Henna Rose wanted to prepare a special evening meal and celebration for Knotten tonight. Knotten was ten yeardays today.
ref: 2020, Pamela L. Volpert, The Tribes of the Littles, page 31:
glosses: Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
Synonym of birthday, the anniversary of one's birth.
synonyms: word: birthday
extra: the anniversary of one's birth
examples: text: To wit, on certain year-days he would tarry alone in his tower, and his lamp might be seen gleaming till midnight.
ref: 2020, Georg Ebers, The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers:
glosses: Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
An annual day; the anniversary of an event or occasion.
examples: text: His executors were to keep his yearday for twenty years at the cost of 20s. per year, and finally after his wife's death the bailiffs and commonalty of Southwold were to find a priest for sixteen years next following to sing for his soul […]
ref: 1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, volume 1, page 660:
text: For they were the very days on the which the women celebrated the feast and yearday of Adonis' death: and there were also in divers parts of the city, images of dead men carried to burial, and women following them, mourning and lamenting.
ref: 1998, Plutarch (in translation), Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, page 310
text: The younger children remained at Bytham for a year, and saw their brothers again only at Leicester, on the yearday of Mother's death.
ref: 2009, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John: A tale of intrigue, honor and the rise of a king, page 56:
text: So it was that one day, by chance the fourth yearday of young Orem's life, Avonap let fall his hoe when he saw the boy, let it fall and walked to where he played.
ref: 2009, Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope, page 75:
glosses: Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
Synonym of deathday or (Christianity) year's mind, the anniversary of a person's death, particularly as observed with a requiem mass or other commemoration.
synonyms: word: deathday or
extra: (Christianity) year's mind, the anniversary of a person's death, particularly as observed with a requiem mass or other commemoration
examples: text: To avoid the idiosyncracies^([sic]) of leap years, we propose, as a first approximation to the actual yearday, a standardized yearday s that is a function of (m, d) only, s = S(m) +dl (6) where 5 is a function of m only.
ref: 1985, Mathematics magazine, volume 58:
text: […] the amended yearday which was the middle day in flowering range. the yearday which is equivalent to commencement of flowering. the amended yearday (based on flowering yearday) which is the equivalent to the commencement of […]
ref: 1998, Australian Journal of Botany, volume 46:
text: ... T₁max the maximum (cloud-free) daily total transmittance at a location with a given elevation and near-surface water-vapor pressure on a given yearday, […]
ref: 2000, Agricultural and forest meteorology;, volumes 104-105:
text: Its power supply failed at yearday 227 (0300), […]
ref: 2002, Journal of physical oceanography, volume 32:
glosses: A particular day numbered from the first day in the year, without regard to month divisions.