day

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

Noun

  1. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
    • day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: daylight day daylength daytime photoperiod

    Antonyms: night nightertale nighttide nighttime scotoperiod skotoperiod

  2. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
    • Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond <...
    • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond <...
    • I've been here for two days and a bit.

    Synonyms: twenty-four hour day 24-hour day nychthemeron

    Related: mul:d

    1. The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.

      Synonyms: twenty-four hour day 24-hour day nychthemeron

      Related: mul:d

    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.

      Synonyms: twenty-four hour day 24-hour day nychthemeron

      Related: mul:d

  3. 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.
  4. 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.
    • The day begins at midnight.
    • Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
  5. The rotational period of a planet.
    • A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
  6. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
    • I worked two days last week.
    • “[…]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...
  7. An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
    • Christmas Day
    • Remembrance Day
  8. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
    • every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
    • 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...
    • If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. - 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal...

    Synonyms: era epoch age cycle day generation Great Year interval period Platonic year time

  9. A period of contention of a day or less.
    • The day belonged to the Allies.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-? Proto-Germanic *dagaz Proto-West Germanic *dag Old English dæġ Middle English day English day Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Cognates Cognate with Scots day, dei, dey, dy (“day”), Yola daie, dei, dey, die (“day”), North Frisian dai, doi, däi (“day”), Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Bavarian Dåg, Tåg (“day”), Central Franconian Daach (“day”), Cimbrian tag, tage (“day”), Dutch dag, dagge (“day”), German Tag (“day”), German Low German Dag, Dagg (“day”), Limburgish Daach, Daag (“day”), Luxembourgish Dag (“day”), Mòcheno ta (“day”), Vilamovian taog (“day”), West Flemish dag (“day”), Yiddish טאָג (tog, “day”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dag (“day”), Faroese...

Forms

days daie daye

Synonyms

day yearday

Hypernyms

period

Hyponyms

Apple Gifting Day arm day Ayurveda Day back day bad hair day Bastille Day birthday Boxing Day brain day bridal day calendar day Canada Day cardio day chest day Christmas Day civil day Commitment Day core day Corregidor Day day game Day of Atonement Day of Judgment day of reckoning day of rest

Related

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday sol

Derived

0-day 10-day measles 24-hour day 3-day measles 400-day clock 7-day fever 7-day measles 90-day wonder a broken clock is right twice a day access day account day ace in a day a cold day in hell a cold day in July a day after the fair a day late and a dollar short ahemeral day Alaska Day Alien Day all-day all day all-day breakfast all-day sucker all in a day's work

Verb

  1. To spend a day (in a place).
    • I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.] - 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:

Forms

days daying dayed daie daye

Related

Sabbath calendar