day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dā
ipa: /deɪ/
ipa: /dæɪ/
ipa: /deɪ̯/
ipa: [deː]
ipa: [dɛj]
ipa: [dɛj]
homophone: Day
homophone: dey
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: days
form: daie
form: daye
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.
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:
synonyms: word: daylight
word: day
word: daylight
word: daylength
word: daytime
word: photoperiod
antonyms: word: night
word: daytime
glosses: The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
examples: text: Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour
text: I've been here for two days and a bit.
related: word: mul:d
synonyms: twenty-four hour day
24-hour day
;
nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
related: word: mul:d
synonyms: twenty-four hour day
24-hour day
;
nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
related: word: mul:d
synonyms: twenty-four hour day
24-hour day
;
nychthemeron
glosses: A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
examples: text: Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
examples: text: The day begins at midnight.
text: Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
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.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The rotational period of a planet.
examples: text: I worked two days last week.
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:
glosses: The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
examples: text: Christmas Day
text: Remembrance Day
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
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:
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:
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:
synonyms: word: era
word: epoch
word: age
word: cycle
word: day
word: epoch
word: era
word: generation
word: Great Year
word: interval
word: period
word: Platonic year
word: time
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.
glosses: A period of contention of a day or less.
Synonyms: word: day
word: yearday
Hypernyms: 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: day star
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: fun-day
word: fun day
word: Gay Freedom Day
word: heyday
word: holiday
word: holy day
word: holy day of obligation
word: I-Day
word: Indigenous Peoples' Day
word: Jerusalem Day
word: judgment day
word: Liberation 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: Patriot Day
word: payday
word: polling day
word: Q-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: Seipp's day gecko
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
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
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 breakfast
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: cake 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: daybed
word: day bed
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: daybook
word: day book
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: daycase
word: day case
word: daycation
word: day center
word: day centre
word: daycentre
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 drink
word: day-drink
word: day-drinking
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: daypack
word: day pack
word: daypart
word: day patient
word: day-peep
word: day pupil
word: day release
word: day residue
word: day return
word: dayrise
word: dayroom
word: day room
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: daysight
word: day-sight
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: day-time
word: day time
word: daytime
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: day-trip
word: day trip
word: daytrip
word: day tripper
word: day-tripper
word: daywalk
word: daywalker
word: dayward
word: daywear
word: daywork
word: day work
word: day-work
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: every day
word: everyday
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: liberation day
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: on a day-to-day basis
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 born 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: poet's day
word: POETS day
word: poets 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: recycle day
word: red day
word: red flag day
word: red-letter
word: red letter day
word: red-letter day
word: return day
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: today
word: to-day
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: trash 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: workaday
word: work-a-day
word: work day
word: yard trash day
word: yard-trash 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