diary

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Etymology

From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, Late Latin also a diary”), neuter of * diarius, from dies (“a day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdaɪəri/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪəri

Noun

diary (plural diaries)

1. A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
2. The method or media used to keep such experiences.

   They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.

3. (UK, Canada) A calendar or appointment book.

Synonyms

• daybook
• journal

Derived terms

• diarist

Related terms

• diurnal
• journal

Coordinate terms

• calendar
• daybook
• chronicle
• log

Translations

daily log of experiences

• Afrikaans: dagboek (af)
• Albanian: ditar (sq)
• Arabic: يوميات (ar) (yawmiyyat) pl
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: gündəlik (az)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: দিনলিপি (bn) (dinalipi)
• Bulgarian: дневник (bg) (dnevník)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: diari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日记 (cmn) (rìjì)

• Czech: deník (cs) m
• Danish: dagbog (da) c
• Dutch: dagboek (nl)
• Esperanto: taglibro (eo)
• Estonian: päevik (et)
• Faroese: dagbók (fo) f
• Finnish: päivyri (fi), päiväkirja (fi)
• French: journal intime (fr) m
• German: Tagebuch (de) n
• Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) (imerolóyio) n
• Gujarati: ડાયરી (gu) (ḍāyarī) m
• Hebrew: יומן (he) (yoman) m
• Hungarian: napló (hu)
• Icelandic: dagbók (is) f
• Ido: diario (io)
• Indonesian: buku harian (id)
• Irish: dialann (ga) f
• Italian: diario (it)
• Japanese: 日記 (ja), にっき (ja) (nikki)
• Kannada: ಡೈರಿ (kn) (ḍairi)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 일기 (ko) (ilgi)
• Latin: ephemeris (la)
• Latvian: dienasgrāmata (lv)
• Lithuanian: dienoraštis (lt)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: diari (ms)
• Norwegian: dagbok (no) m
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: dziennik (pl) m, pamiętnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: diário (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: дневник (ru) (dnevník)
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-latha (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бележница (sh), дневник (sh) m

  Roman: beležnica (sh), dnevnik (sh) m

• Slovak: denník (sk)
• Slovene: dnevnik (sl)
• Spanish: diario (es) m
• Swahili: tarihi (sw), shajara (sw)
• Swedish: dagbok (sv)
• Tagalog: talaarawan (tl)
• Tamil: நாட்குறிப்பு (ta) (nāṭkuṟippu)
• Telugu: డైరీ (te) (ḍairī)
• Thai: สมุดบันทึก (th) (sà-mòot ban-téuk)
• Turkish: günlük (tr)
• Ukrainian: щоденник (uk) (ščodénnyk)
• Vietnamese: sổ nhật ký (vi)
• Volapük: delabuk (vo)
• Welsh: dyddiadur (cy)
• Yiddish: טאָג־בוך (yi) (tog–bukh) n

Adjective

diary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
   • Francis Bacon

     The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

External links

• diary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• diary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• diary at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dairy