day
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
day
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, 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”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “dags”). 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”).
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: dā, IPA(key): /deɪ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK female) (file) Audio (UK male) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
- Homophone: dey
NounEdit
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.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day
- (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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- 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, […].
- Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
- 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.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- 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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
- Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era
- 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.
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- 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
- scambling day
- 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 termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- a cold day in hell
- all day, all-day
- all in a day's work
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- another day, another dollar
- 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 a day of it
- make one's day
- Monday
- off day
- one-day
- one of these days
- present-day
- Rome wasn't built in a day
- rule the day
- same-day
- Saturday
- save the day
- seize the day
- some days a diamond, some days a stone
- Sunday
- that'll be the day
- Thursday
- time of day
- today
- today is a good day to die
- tomorrow is another day
- to this day
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- weekday
- win the day
- workaday
- yesterday
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: dei
TranslationsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
VerbEdit
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).
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:
- I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]
See alsoEdit
- (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
- Sabbath
- calendar
AnagramsEdit
AzerbaijaniEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Common Turkic *dāy.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of day | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | day |
daylar | ||||||
definite accusative | dayı |
dayları | ||||||
dative | daya |
daylara | ||||||
locative | dayda |
daylarda | ||||||
ablative | daydan |
daylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | dayın |
dayların |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)
ReferencesEdit
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further readingEdit
- “day” in Obastan.com.
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Initial clipping of inday.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day
- (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
- A familiar address to a daughter.
KalashaEdit
VerbEdit
day
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day (plural dayes or days or dawes)
- day (composed of 24 hours)
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:
- Þu myhteſ faren al a dæiſ fare ſculdeſt thu neure finden man in tun ſittende · ne land tiled.
- You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 184, verso, lines 783-784:
- Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney / ffro day to day / they ryden in hir wey […]
- Towards Saluzzo they make 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.
AntonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Etymology 2Edit
PronounEdit
day
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English day
NounEdit
day (plural days)
- day
- (in the definite singular) today
- A'm sorry, A've no seen Angus the day.
- I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angus today.
TagalogEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day
- Alternative spelling of 'day