day and night

See also: Day and Night

English

Alternative forms

• night and day

Pronunciation

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Adverb

day and night (not comparable)

1. All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:1:

     Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

   • 2012, J.J. Webber, 178 Siege Battery R.G.A.: B.E.F. France: 1916-1918, page 15:

     We were firing at top speed day and night on counter-battery work, neutralisation, and aeroplane shoots, and all spare men were commandeered to help feed the guns.

   • 2013, Marianne Levy, Ellie May Can Definitely be Trusted to Keep a Secret, →ISBN:

     Kiko has it bad enough right now, with reporters stalking her day and night

Translations

all the time

• Arabic: لَيْلَ نَهَارَ (layla nahāra), صَبَاحَ مَسَاءَ (ṣabāḥa masāʔa)
• Armenian: օր ու գիշեր (ōr u gišer)
• Azerbaijani: gecəbəgündüz, gecə-gündüz
• Bengali: দিনরাত (bn) (dinrat), অহর্নিশি (bn) (ohorniśi), দিবারাত্রি (bn) (dibaratri)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晝夜 / 昼夜 (zh) (zhòuyè), 日夜 (zh) (rìyè)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: dag og nat
• Dutch: dag en nacht
• Finnish: yötä päivää (fi)
• French: jour et nuit (fr)
• Galician: noite e día
• German: Tag und Nacht (de)
• Greek: νυχθημερόν (el) (nychthimerón)
• Hebrew: יומם ולילה (jomám va lájla), יומם וליל (jomám va lájil)
• Hindi: सुब्ह शाम (subha śām), दिन रात (din rāt)
• Hungarian: éjjel-nappal (hu), éjt nappallá téve
• Japanese: 昼夜 (ja) (ちゅうや, chūya), 日夜 (ja) (にちや, nichiya), 昼も夜も (ひるもよるも, hiru mo yoru mo)
• Korean: 주야 (ko) (juya), 밤낮 (ko) (bamnat)
• Malayalam: രാപകൽ (ml) (rāpakal), ദിനരാത്രം (ml) (dinarātraṁ), അഹോരാത്രം (ml) (ahōrātraṁ)
• Persian: شب و روز (šab-o-ruz), روز و شب (ruz-o-šab), شبانه‌روز (fa) (šabâne-ruz)
• Polish: dzień i noc
• Portuguese: dia e noite
• Russian: днём и но́чью (dnjom i nóčʹju), де́нно и но́щно (ru) (dénno i nóščno) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дан и ноћ

  Latin: dan i noć

• Spanish: día y noche
• Swedish: dag och natt
• Tamil: இரவுபகல் (ta) (iravupakal), இராப்பகல் (ta) (irāppakal), ராத்திரியும் பகலும் (rāttiriyum pakalum)
• Telugu: పగలు రాత్రి (pagalu rātri)
• Turkish: gece gündüz (tr) (night and day), sabah akşam (tr)
• Urdu: دِن رات (din rāt), صُبْح و شام (subh o śām) (literary, poetry)

Noun

day and night (uncountable)

1. Synonym of chalk and cheese (“two things that are very different”).

Anagrams

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