day
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-5 language code forLand Dayak languages . Inherited fromMiddle English day , fromOld English dæġ ( “ day ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *dag , fromProto-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 andDanish 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 arefalse 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 , New York, N.Y.: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 ) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.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 ) fromnightfall 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 ) The rotational period of a planet.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 :“[ …] 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 drillday , 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.[ …] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from aday 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 [ … ] , London: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 ) Tospend 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 .
day (definite accusative dayı ,plural daylar )
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 a girla familiar address to adaughter FromEnglish day .
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I am Inherited fromOld English dæġ , fromProto-West Germanic *dag .
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. 1400–1410],→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 , John Wycliffe, “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 , 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 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.