day
IPA: dˈeɪ
noun
- The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
- A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.
- The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- 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.
- (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- 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.
- (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval diminutive of David.
- An English surname originating as an occupation from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer, or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.
- A surname from Irish can be found as both Day and O'Day from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Modoc County, California.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Florida.
- A township in Montcalm County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Isanti County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Taney County, Missouri.
- A town in Saratoga County, New York.
- A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A Mbum-Day language of Chad.
verb
- (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
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Examples of "day" in Sentences
- Not an eventful day but a relaxing day witch is what I need.
- Quite right, too; it wasn't an especially fine day; just _a day_.
- Will it be called day by day when there will be one eternal day?
- _One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day_.
- _For which cause we faint not; but, though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day_.
- Once more the evil in Velo's soul was crying to him, shouting to him, "This is your day -- _this is your day_!"
- The account closes the work of each day with the words: "_And the evening and the morning were the first day_," "_the second day_," etc.
- Then calculate the calorific value (per person per day) for each commodity (use Table 3) and fill the row Targeted ration Kcal/person/day
- Which has been improved by some, on this side the water, into an excuse for getting drunk every day in the week, for fear that the _specific day_ should be missed.
- A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my wood pile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly _day day day_, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery _phe-be_ from the wood-side.
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