days
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Noun
editdays
Noun
editdays pl (plural only)
- A particular time or period of vague extent.
- Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
- His days of being the king are over.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
- 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)[1], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
- With Pi’s removal from Honan, Chang lost his backing in the Kuei-te position and was obliged to relinquish it. In the winter we find him in nearby Po-chou, Anhwei, enjoying the hospitality of the magistrate P’ei Chen, who had been a friend since Chang's Peking days.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
- Life.
- That's how he ended his days.
Translations
editlife
References
editVerb
editdays
- third-person singular simple present indicative of day
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).
Adverb
editdays (not comparable)
Translations
editduring the day
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editdays
- Alternative form of deis (“dais”)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editdays
Scots
editNoun
editdays
Tagalog
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English dice, from Middle English dys, plural of dy, variant of dee, from Old French dé, from Latin datum, from datus (“given”). Doublet of datos. See also dado.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdajs/ [ˈd̪aɪ̯s]
- Rhymes: -ajs
- Syllabification: days
Noun
editdays (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔ᜐ᜔)
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “days”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 337
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