day
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰogʷʰ-o-s, from *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”). Cognate also with Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”), in which case related to Tuesday instead.
Pronunciation
- enPR: dā, IPA(key): /deɪ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK female) (file) Audio (UK male) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
- Homophone: dey
Noun
day (plural days)
- Any period of 24 hours.
- I've been here for two days and a bit.
- A period from midnight to the following midnight.
- The day begins at midnight.
- (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
- A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- I worked two days last week.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- “ […] 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. […]”
- Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
- day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- 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, […].
- Antonym: night
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
- Every dog has its day.
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- 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.
- 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:
- If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, 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 its day.
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- The day belonged to the Allies.
- (meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- bad hair day
- Bastille Day
- birthday
- Boxing Day
- bridal day
- calendar day
- Canada Day
- Christmas Day
- civil day
- Day of Atonement
- Day of Judgment
- day of reckoning
- day of rest
- Days of Awe
- days of grace
- D-Day
- dollar day
- doomsday
- duvet day
- feast day
- field day
- flag day
- Flag Day
- foreday
- Friday
- heyday
- holiday
- holy day
- judgment day
- lifeday
- loveday
- May Day
- midday
- Monday
- name day
- New Year's Day
- noonday
- one day
- payday
- polling day
- rainy day
- rest day
- saint's day
- Saturday
- sick day
- solar day
- someday
- St. Andrew's Day
- St. David's Day
- St. George's Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- St. Stephen's Day
- Sunday
- synodic day
- the other day
- Thursday
- Tuesday
- Twelfth Day
- Victoria day
- wedding day
- Wednesday
- weekday
- workday
- working day
Derived terms
Related terms
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- a cold day in hell
- all day, all-day
- all in a day's work
- any day now
- as the day is long
- at the end of the day
- call it a day
- catch of the day
- day after day
- daybeam
- day bed, daybed
- day blindness
- day boarder
- dayboat
- daybook
- dayboy
- daybreak
- day by day
- day care, day centre, daycentre
- day-clean
- day dot
- daydream
- dayfly
- daygirl
- Day-Glo
- day hospital
- day in, day out
- day job
- day laborer, day labourer
- daylight
- daylily
- daylong
- daymare
- daymark
- day name
- day-neutral
- day of days
- day off
- day-old
- day one
- day out
- daypack
- daypart
- day patient
- day release
- day room
- days
- daysack
- daysail
- daysailer
- day school
- day shift
- dayspring
- daystar
- daytime
- day-to-day
- day to day
- day trade, daytrade
- day trader, daytrader
- day trading
- day trip
- dayward
- daywear
- degree-day
- dish of the day
- eight-day clock
- end one's days
- everyday
- every dog has its day
- first-day cover
- Friday
- from day to day
- have had its day
- have had one's day
- have seen one's day
- holiday
- in this day and age
- intraday
- it's early days
- late in the day
- latter-day
- make one's day
- Monday
- off day
- one-day
- one of these days
- present-day
- rule the day
- same-day
- Saturday
- save the day
- Sunday
- that'll be the day
- Thursday
- time of day
- today
- today is a good day to die
- tomorrow is another day
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- weekday
- win the day
- workaday
- yesterday
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: dei
Translations
References
- Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)
- (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
- 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, page 233:
- When I nighted and dayed in Damascus town, […]
See also
- (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
- Sabbath
- calendar
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Initial clipping of inday.
Pronunciation
- (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Hyphenation: day
Noun
day
- (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
- A familiar address to a daughter.
Kalasha
Verb
day
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English dæġ, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
day (plural dayes or days or dawes)
- day (composed of 24 hours)
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 783-784:
- Toward Saluces shaping hir journey, / Fro day to day they ryden in hir wey […]
- Towards Saluzzo they point their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way […]
- day (as opposed to night)
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- and he clepide the liȝt, dai, and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.
- And he called light "day" and the darkness "night". And the evening and morning was made; one day.
- daylight, sunlight
- epoch, age, period
- A certain day.
Antonyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “dai (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
day
- Alternative form of þei
References
- “thei (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 May 2018.
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.
Noun
day (plural days)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪ
- English terms with homophones
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Astronomy
- English terms with quotations
- en:Meteorology
- English verbs
- English terms with rare senses
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Days of the week
- English basic words
- en:Time
- en:Times of day
- Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Cebuano/aɪ
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano colloquialisms
- Cebuano clippings
- Kalasha lemmas
- Kalasha verbs
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Middle English nouns
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- Middle English pronouns
- enm:Time
- Scots terms inherited from Middle English
- Scots terms derived from Middle English
- Scots terms inherited from Old English
- Scots terms derived from Old English
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- Scots nouns
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- sco:Time