day
TranslingualEdit
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day
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.
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, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include 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
- (UK, US) enPR: dā, IPA(key): /deɪ̯/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: dā, IPA(key): /dæɪ̯/
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.
- (informal or 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.
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 […], London: Secker & Warburg, →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.
- Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- The day belonged to the Allies.
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- bad hair day
- Bastille Day
- birthday
- Boxing Day
- bridal day
- calendar day
- Canada Day
- Christmas Day
- civil day
- D-Day
- Day of Atonement
- Day of Judgment
- day of reckoning
- day of rest
- Days of Awe
- days of grace
- 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
- race day, raceday
- 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
- 0-day
- 10-day measles
- 3-day measles
- 7-day fever
- 7-day measles
- 90-day wonder
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- a cold day in hell
- a cold day in July
- a day after the fair
- a day late and a dollar short
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- access day
- account day
- ace in a day
- ahemeral day
- all day, all-day
- all in a day's work
- all-day
- all-day sucker
- an apple a day
- an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- another day, another dollar
- any day
- any day now
- any day of the week
- any day of the week and twice on Sunday
- any day of the week and twice on Sundays
- as the day is long
- at the end of the day
- away day
- b-day
- back in day
- back in the day
- bad old days
- Baker day
- banyan day
- basket days
- be on days
- beginning of day
- big day
- bin day
- borrowed days
- borrowing days
- boxing day
- break of day
- business day
- button day
- by day
- by the day
- call it a day
- can do this all day
- canicular days
- carry the day
- catch of the day
- chair days
- cheat day
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- clear as day
- cold day in Hell
- contango day
- continuation day
- cooling-off day
- could go all day
- daily
- dan day
- dawn of a new day
- day after
- day after day
- day after tomorrow
- day and age
- day and night
- day at the beach
- day bed, daybed
- day before yesterday
- day blind
- day blindness
- day boarder
- day book
- day boy
- day by day
- day care center
- day care, day centre, daycentre
- day centre
- day coal
- day count convention
- day cream
- day dot
- day fine
- day for night
- day gone by
- day hospital
- day in court
- day in the sun
- day in, day out
- day job
- day labor
- day laborer, day labourer
- day lark
- day lily
- day name
- day of days
- day of days
- day of judgement
- day of judgment
- day of the rope
- day off
- day one
- day or night
- day order
- day out
- day pack
- day patient
- day pupil
- day release
- day return
- day room
- day school
- day shape
- day shift
- day sign
- day the music died
- day time
- day to day
- day trade, daytrade
- day trader, daytrader
- day trading
- day trip
- day tripper
- day work
- day worker
- day-after recall test
- day-age
- day-age creationism
- day-age creationist
- day-ager
- day-and-date
- day-biter
- day-blind
- day-blindness
- day-break
- day-clean
- day-dawn
- day-ee
- day-fine
- Day-Glo
- day-moth
- day-net
- day-neutral
- day-nighter
- day-old
- day-over-day
- day-peep
- day-scholar
- day-sight
- day-time
- day-to-day
- day-to-night
- day-trade
- day-trader
- day-trip
- day-tripper
- day-work
- day-worker
- day-year principle
- daybeam
- dayboat
- daybook
- dayboy
- daybreak
- daydream
- dayfly
- daygirl
- daylight
- daylily
- daylong
- daymare
- daymark
- daypack
- daypart
- days
- days of wine and roses
- days of yore
- daysack
- daysail
- daysailer
- dayspring
- daystar
- daytime
- dayward
- daywear
- degree day
- degree-day
- dish of the day
- ditch day
- dog day
- dog days
- dog-day cicada
- don't give up the day job
- don't give up your day job
- don't quit your day job
- doona day
- double day
- dress-down day
- E-day
- early day motion
- early days
- Earth day
- eight-day clock
- Ember day
- end of day
- end of the day
- end one's days
- end one's days
- every day
- every day is a school day
- every day of the week
- every day of the week and twice on Sunday
- every day of the week and twice on Sundays
- every dog has his day
- every dog has its day
- every dog must have his day
- every dog must have its day
- every-day
- everyday
- evil day
- eye of day
- fat day
- fifth-day fits
- first day cover
- first notice day
- first order of the day
- First-day
- first-day cover
- fish and company stink after three days
- five-day fever
- five-day week
- for days
- forever and a day
- free day
- from day to day
- from one day to the next
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- gag-a-day
- game day
- garbage day
- give the time of day
- glory days
- go about one's day
- God be with the days
- good day
- good old days
- halcyon days
- half day
- happy day scenario
- have a nice day
- have a nice day syndrome
- have had its day
- have had one's day
- have had one's day under the sun
- have seen better days
- have seen one's day
- high days and holidays
- holiday
- holy day of obligation
- hump day
- I don't have all day
- I haven't got all day
- if a day
- if one is a day
- in all one's born days
- in one's born days
- in one's day
- in the cold light of day
- in this day and age
- in three days
- INSET day
- intraday
- it's early days
- judgement day
- judicial day
- Julian day
- laced day-moth
- Lady-day
- last day
- late in the day
- latter-day
- Latter-day Saint
- law day
- lawful day
- lay day
- leap day
- leg day
- length of days
- light day
- live to fight another day
- Lord's day
- lunar day
- M-day
- make a day of it
- make one's day
- make someone's day
- man day
- man-day
- market day
- match day
- May-day sweep
- me day
- mean solar day
- members' day
- middle day
- modern-day
- muck-up day
- mufti day
- naked as the day one was born
- name the day
- natal day
- national day
- next-day
- night and day
- night-and-day
- nine days wonder
- nine-day wonder, nine day wonder, nine days' wonder
- ninety days
- ninety-day wonder
- not look a day over
- now a days
- now-a-days
- off day
- oh my days
- old days
- one of these days
- one of these days
- one of those days
- one-day
- one-day cricket
- one-day international
- one-day match
- one's days are numbered
- open day
- order of the day
- paper day
- pass the time of day
- pasture day moth
- pay day
- peep of day
- personal day
- plain as day
- POETS day
- poet's day
- poets day
- poets' day
- post day
- present-day
- quarter day
- quarter-day
- queen for a day
- rag day
- rain day
- red day
- red letter day
- red-letter day
- return day
- Rome wasn't built in a day
- Rome wasn't burned in a day
- rue the day
- rule the day
- running day
- Sabba-day
- Sabbath-day
- Sabber-day
- safe day
- salad days
- same-day
- save something for a rainy day
- save the day
- school day
- sea day
- sea-day
- see the day
- see the light of day
- seize the day
- seven-day wonder
- Seventh-day Adventism
- Seventh-day Adventist
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- ship's days
- show day
- sidereal day
- six bob a day tourist
- skier day
- slow news day
- snow day
- solar day
- some day
- some days a diamond, some days a stone
- speech day
- sports day
- stellar day
- sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- summer's day
- sunny-day flooding
- sweat like a nigger on election day
- tag day
- take one day at a time
- teacher work day
- term day
- that'll be the day
- the day
- the day before
- the next day
- these days
- those were the days
- three day eventing
- three day sickness
- three days ago
- three-day fever
- three-day measles
- three-day sickness
- ticket day
- tide day
- time of day
- to one's dying day
- to the day
- to this day
- to-day
- today
- today is a good day to die
- tomorrow is another day
- twelfth day cake
- twenty-four hours a day
- two days after tomorrow
- until one's dying day
- vacation day
- varnishing day
- washing day
- we haven't got all day
- weather day
- wedding-day
- weekday
- what a lovely day
- what day is it today
- win the day
- without day
- woman-day
- work day
- workaday
- yesterday
- you learn something new every day
- zero day
- zero-day
- zero-day exploit
Related termsEdit
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
- (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Hyphenation: day
NounEdit
day
- (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
- A familiar address to a daughter.
Hawaiian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day
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, 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)
TagalogEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
day
- Alternative spelling of 'day