day
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-5 language code forLand Dayak languages . Inherited fromMiddle English day Old English dæġ ( “ day ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *dag Proto-Germanic *dagaz ( “ day ” ) ; see there for more.
Cognate withSaterland Frisian Dai ( “ day ” ) ,West Frisian dei ( “ day ” ) ,Dutch dag ( “ day ” ) ,German Low German Dag ( “ day ” ) ,Alemannic German Däi ( “ day ” ) ,German Tag ( “ day ” ) ,Swedish Norwegian Danish dag ( “ day ” ) ,Icelandic dagur ( “ day ” ) ,Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 ( dags “ day ” ) . Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives includeAlbanian 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 false cognates ; they all derive fromProto-Indo-European *dyew- ( “ to shine ” ) .
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day (plural days
The time when theSun is above thehorizon and it lights the sky.Synonyms: daylight see also Thesaurus:daytime Antonyms: night see also Thesaurus:nighttime day and night; I work at night and sleep during theday .
1897 December (indicated as1898 ),Winston Churchill , chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode The Macmillan Company ; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd. ,→OCLC Theday 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 twodays and a bit.
The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; asolar day . The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about itsaxis with respect to the fixed stars; asidereal day orstellar day . ( informal or meteorology ) Your 8am forecast: The high for theday 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 acalendar , such as frommidnight to the followingmidnight or( Judaism ) nightfall to the followingnightfall .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day Theday begins at midnight.
Monday is the firstday of the week in many countries of the world.
( astronomy ) Aday on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.I worked twodays last week.
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC “[ …] 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. [ …]
Anobservance lasting for a day, such as anannual holiday .ChristmasDay RemembranceDay 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 itsday ; in thatday ; back in theday ; in thosedays
1910 Emerson Hough , chapter I, inThe 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.[ …] day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
1943 November –1944 February (date written; published1945 August 17),George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],Animal Farm [ … ] Secker & Warburg , publishedMay 1962 ,→OCLC If they had no more food than they had had in Jones'sday , 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 itsday .
A period ofcontention of a day or less.Theday belonged to the Allies.
day (third-person singular simple present days present participle daying simple past and past participle dayed
( rare , intransitive ) spend a day (in a place).1885 Richard F. Burton , chapter XXIII, inThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume I, The Burton Club, page233 :I nighted anddayed in Damascus town[.]
FromProto-Common Turkic *dāy
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colt ,foal → Lezgi:тай ( taj ) ( or < Kumyk ) Clauson, Gerard (1972 ) “ta:y”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish , Oxford: Clarendon Press Clipping ofinday
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( colloquial ) a familiar address to adaughter FromEnglish day
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dai dæi dey daȝ dæȝ dei daye daȝȝ daȝh daiȝ *dah day plural dayes or days or dawes
day ( composed of 24 hours ) 1387–1400 [Geoffrey] Chaucer , “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford ]”, inThe Tales of Caunt́bury Hengwrt Chaucer ; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion:National Library of Wales , published [c. →OCLC folio 184, verso , lines783-784 :Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney / ffroday today / they ryden in hir wey[ …] TowardsSaluzzo they make their journey, / Fromday today they ride on their way [ …] day ( as opposed to night ) a. 1382 Genesis 1:5 ”, inWycliffe's Bible and he clepide the liȝt,dai , and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, odaie . And he called light "day " and the darkness "night". And the evening and morning was made; oneday . daylight ,sunlight epoch ,age ,period a certain day day
Alternative form ofþei ( “ they ” ) Inherited fromMiddle English day
day (plural days
day ( in the definite singular ) today A'm sorry, A've no seen Angusthe day . I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angustoday . day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔
Alternative spelling of'day day
torub 2016 Đừng nói chuyện với cô ấy , part I, NXB Phụ Nữ, translation of别和她说话 Tôi đặt bút xuống, khẽ liếm môi, lại đưa tayday mắt, cảm thấy mình như vừa tỉnh mộng. I put down my pen, gently licked my lips, and lifted my hand to againrub my eyes, feeling as if I had just woken up from a dream. 
