all day

See also: all-day

English

Adverb

all day (not comparable)

1. For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.

   We walked all day.

   • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock^[1]:

     So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,    

     They cannot see the sun on high:

     The wind hath blown a gale all day;

     At evening it hath died away.

Related terms

• all night

Translations

the entire day

• Arabic: طُول اَلْيَوْم (ṭūl al-yawm), طُول اَلنَّهَار (ṭūl an-nahār), كُلّ اَلْيَوْم (kull al-yawm)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 成日 (yue) (seng⁴ jat⁶)

  Mandarin: 終日／终日 (zh) (zhōngrì), 终日 (zh) (zhōngrì), 全天 (zh) (quántiān), 整天 (zh) (zhěngtiān)

• Dutch: de hele dag
• Finnish: koko päivän (fi)
• French: toute la journée
• German: den ganzen Tag
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌰 𐌳𐌰𐌲 (allana dag)
• Hindi: दिन भर (din bhar), सारे दिन (sāre din)
• Japanese: 終日 (ja) (じゅうじつ, jūjitsu), 一日中 (いちにちじゅう, ichinichijū)
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• Khmer: វាស់ថ្ងៃ (voah tŋay)
• Korean: 하루 종일 (ko) (haru jong'il)
• Latin: diū (la)
• Old English: ealne dæġ
• Portuguese: o dia todo
• Russian: це́лый день (célyj denʹ), весь день (vesʹ denʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: fad an latha
• Spanish: todo el día
• Turkish: gün boyu
• Urdu: سارے دن (sāre din)
• Vietnamese: cả ngày
• Yakut: бүтүн күн (bütün kün)
• Yiddish: אַ גאַנצן טאָג (a gantsn tog)