day

day

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.

• daie, daye (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

enPR: dā

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /deɪ/

  • Audio (Received Pronunciation, female voice, "a day"):

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  • Audio (Received Pronunciation, male voice):

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  • Audio (California, [deː]):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dæɪ/

  • Audio (Cultivated, [dɛɪ]):

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /deɪ̯/, [deː], [dɛj]
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): [dɛj]
• Homophones: Day, dey
• Rhymes: -eɪ

day (plural days)

1. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.

   Synonyms: daylight; see also Thesaurus:daytime

   Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

   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, […].

3. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.

   Alternative form: d (symbol)

   Synonyms: twenty-four hour day, 24-hour day; nychthemeron (uncommon)

   Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

   Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour

   I've been here for two days and a bit.

   1. The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
   2. The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
4. (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.

5. A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

   The day begins at midnight.

   Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.

6. (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.

   A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

7. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

   I worked two days last week.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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. […]”

8. An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.

   Christmas Day

   Remembrance Day

10. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.

    Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era

    every dog has its day;  in that day;  back in the day; in those days

    • 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.

    • 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.

11. A period of contention of a day or less.

    The day belonged to the Allies.

• Sranan Tongo: dei

day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)

1. (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[.]

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]
• Sabbath
• calendar

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• d'ya, y'ad, yad

From Proto-Common Turkic *dāy.

• IPA^(key): [dɑj]

• Audio (Baku):

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day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)

1. colt, foal

• dayça

• → Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

• “day” in Obastan.com.

Clipping of inday.

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: day

day

1. (colloquial) a familiar address to a girl
2. a familiar address to a daughter

From English day.

• IPA^(key): /deɪ/, /deː/

day

1. day

day

1. I am

Inherited from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

• dai, daye, dey
• daȝȝ, daiȝ, dæi, dæȝ, dei (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /dæi̯/
• IPA^(key): /daj/, /dɛj/ (Early Middle English)

day (plural dayes or dawes)

1. A day; a period of 24 hours or between sunrises.
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     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 Caunt́bury (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 […]

2. Daytime; 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.

3. An epoch, age, or period.
4. An particular day or period.
5. Daylight, sunlight; the light of day.
6. (architecture) A section of a window split into mullions.

• nyght

• English: day
• Scots: day, dey, dei, dy
• Yola: die, daie, dei, dey

• “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.

day

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

• dey; dei, dy

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

• IPA^(key): /dɪ/, /deː/
• (Buchan) IPA^(key): /dəi̯/
• (Shetland) IPA^(key): /dai̯/

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (in the definite singular) today

   A'm sorry, A've no seen Angus the day.

   I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angus today.

• “day, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• “dei, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdaj/ [ˈd̪aɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: day

day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of 'day

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jaj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ja(ː)j˧˧]

day

1. to rub
   • 2016, chapter 2, in Nguyễn Đức Vịnh, transl., Đừng nói chuyện với cô ấy, part I, NXB Phụ Nữ, translation of 别和她说话 by Yù Jǐn (Ngộ Cẩn):

     Tôi đặt bút xuống, khẽ liếm môi, lại đưa tay day mắt, cảm thấy mình như vừa tỉnh mộng.

     I put down my pen, gently licked my lips, and lifted my hand to again rub my eyes, feeling as if I had just woken up from a dream.