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
- Monday is the first day of the week.
- Sunday is the first day of the week.
- In German, the days of the week are capitalized.
- You can then deduce the day of the week, or the date.
- An aperture indicates the name of the day of the week.
- The paitient was required to ambulate for an hour a day.
- It is the first day of the last week of the Advent Season.
- Activity is scattered randomly over the 24 hours of the day.
- In none of the other articles is the day of the week mentioned.
- Beauty's amnesia and ignorance of the day of the week are irrelevant.
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