Definitions for DAY
deɪday

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar daynoun

   time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

   "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"

2. daynoun

   some point or period in time

   "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"

3. daynoun

   a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance

   "Mother's Day"

4. day, daytime, daylightnoun

   the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

   "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

5. daynoun

   the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)

   "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed"

6. daynoun

   an era of existence or influence

   "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day"

7. daynoun

   the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis

   "how long is a day on Jupiter?"

8. sidereal day, daynoun

   the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day

9. daynoun

   a period of opportunity

   "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"

10. Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.noun

    United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)

GCIDERate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Daynoun

   The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine; -- also called daytime.

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. daynoun

   Any period of 24 hours.

   I've been here for 2 and a bit days.

2. daynoun

   A period from midnight to the following midnight.

   The day begins at midnight.

3. daynoun

   Rotational period of a planet (especially earth).

   A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

4. daynoun

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

   I worked two days last week.

5. daynoun

   Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight, daytime.

6. daynoun

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

   Every dog has its day.

7. daynoun

   A period of contention of a day or less.

   The day belonged to the Allies.

8. dayverb

   To spend a day (in a place).

9. Daynoun

   A Mbum-Day language of Chad.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DAYnoun

   Etymology: dæg, Saxon.

   1. The time between the rising and setting of the sun, called the artificial day.

   Why stand ye here all the day idle? Mat. xx. 6.

   Of night impatient, we demand the day;
   The day arrives, then for the night we pray:
   The night and day successive come and go,
   Our lasting pains no interruption know. Richard Blackmore, Creation.

   Or object new
   Casual discourse draws on, which intermits
   Our day’s work. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix. l. 224.

   2. The time from noon to noon, called the natural day.

   How many hours bring about the day?
   How many days will finish up the year? William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   3. Light; sunshine.

   Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness. Rom. xiii. 13.

   The West yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
   Now spurs the lated traveller apace,
   To gain the timely inn. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Around the fields did nimble lightning play,
   Which offer’d us by fits, and snatch’d the day:
   ’Midst this was heard the shrill and tender cry
   Of well-pleas’d ghosts, which in the storm did fly. Dryden.

   Yet are we able only to survey
   Dawnings of beams, and promises of day. Matthew Prior.

   4. Any time specified and distinguished from other time; an age; the time. In this sense it is generally plural.

   After him reigned Gutheline his heir,
   The justest man, and truest, in his days. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

   I think, in these days, one honest man is obliged to acquaint another who are his friends. Alexander Pope.

   We have, at this time of day, better and more certain means of information than they had. John Woodward, Nat. Hist.

   5. Life: in this sense it is commonly plural. He never in his days broke his word; that is, in his whole life.6. The day of contest; the contest; the battle.

   His name struck fear, his conduct won the day;
   He came, he saw, he seiz’d the struggling prey. Wentworth Dillon.

   The noble thanes do bravely in the war;
   The day almost itself professes your’s,
   And little is to do. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Would you th’ advantage of the fight delay,
   If, striking first, you were to win the day? Dryden.

   7. An appointed or fixed time.

   Or if my debtors do not keep their day,
   Deny their hands, and then refuse to pay,
   I must with patience all the terms attend. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   8. A day appointed for some commemoration.

   The field of Agincourt,
   Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   9. From day to day; without certainty or continuance.

   Bavaria hath been taught, that merit and service doth oblige the Spaniard but from day to day. Francis Bacon, War with Spain.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Daynoun

   the time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine

2. Daynoun

   the period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below

3. Daynoun

   those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work

4. Daynoun

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

5. Daynoun

   (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc

6. Etymology: [OE. day, dai, dei, AS. dg; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. 69. Cf. Dawn.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Day

   A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day. Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context, need and convenience. In 1967, the second was redefined in terms of the wavelength of light, and it became the SI base unit of time. The unit of measurement for time called "day", redefined in 1967 as 86,400 SI seconds and symbolized d, is not an SI unit, but it is accepted for use with SI. A civil day is usually also 86,400 seconds, plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time UTC, and, in some locations, occasionally plus or minus an hour when changing from or to daylight saving time. The word day may also refer to a day of the week or to a calendar date, as in answer to the question "On which day?" Day also refers to the part of the day that is not night — also known as daytime. The life patterns of humans and many other species are related to Earth's solar day and the cycle of day and night.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. Day

   dā, n. the time of light, from sunrise to sunset: the time from morning till night: twenty-four hours, the time the earth takes to make a revolution on her axis—this being the solar or natural day as distinguished from the sidereal day, between two transits of the same star: a man's period of existence or influence: a time or period.—ns. Day′-bed (Shak.), a couch or sofa; Day′-blind′ness, a defect of vision, in which objects are best seen by a dim light; Day′-book, a book in which merchants, &c., enter the transactions of every day; Day′break; Day′-coal, the upper stratum of coal; Day′-dream, a dreaming or musing while awake; Day′-fly, a fly which lives in its perfect form only for a day, one of the ephemera; Day′-lā′bour; Day′-lā′bourer; Day′light; Day′-lil′y, a flower whose blossoms last only for a day, the hemerocallis.—adj. Day′long, during the whole day.—ns. Day′-peep (Milt.), the dawn; Day′-schol′ar, a boy who attends a boarding-school during the school-hours, but boards at home; Day′-school, a school held during the day, as opposed both to a night-school and to a boarding-school; Day′-sight = night-blindness; Days′man, one who appoints a day to hear a cause: an umpire; Day′spring, dawn; Day′star, the morning star; Day′time.—adj. Day′-wea′ried (Shak.), wearied with the work of the day.—n. Day′-work.—Day by day, daily; Day of doom, the judgment day; Days of grace, three days allowed for payment of bills, &c., beyond the day named.—Name the day, to fix the day of marriage.—One of these days, an indefinite reference to the near future.—The day, the time spoken of: (Scot.) to-day; The other day, not long ago; The time of day, a greeting, as, 'to give a person the time of day,' to greet him. [A.S. dæg; Ger. tag; not conn. with L. dies.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. day

   The astronomical day is reckoned from noon to noon, continuously through the twenty-four hours, like the other days. It commences at noon, twelve hours after the civil day, which itself begins twelve hours after the nautical day, so that the noon of the civil day, the beginning of the astronomical day, and the end of the nautical day, occur at the same moment. (See the words SOLAR and SIDEREAL.)

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. day

   A unit of specified and known amount of time on planet earth.

   On planet earth a day is 24 hours, on other planets it can be another amount of hours.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on September 10, 2016  

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   day

   A unit of specified and known time on a planet.

   Time on other planets is a different amount to our perceived time..

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 9, 2020  

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1. DAY

   What does DAY stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DAY acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DAY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Day is ranked #294 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Day surname appeared 105,091 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 36 would have the surname Day.
   
   83% or 87,310 total occurrences were White.
   10.4% or 10,972 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 2,522 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 2,070 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1% or 1,135 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   1% or 1,072 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Calendar Day
   • Era
   • Opportunity
   • Sidereal Time
   • Time
   • Time Period
   • Time Unit
   • Work Time
   • Writer

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DAY' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #138

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DAY' in Written Corpus Frequency: #166

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DAY' in Nouns Frequency: #6

Anagrams for DAY »

1. yad

2. d'ya

3. ady

How to pronounce DAY?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DAY in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DAY in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DAY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of DAY in a Sentence

1. Barack Obama:

   For many of us, this Memorial Day is especially meaningful. It is the first since our war in Afghanistan came to an end, today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war.

2. Peter Kenny:

   But it's going to take significantly more than that for the markets to move higher. Better economic data would be a very important component, yesterday's (stock) rally has all the appearances of being a one-day pop.

3. Francis Collins:

   The problem, of course, is if this is so infectious -- and we might see hundreds of thousands of cases every day, maybe even a million cases in a day from Omicron -- even if it's a little less severe, you are going to have a lot of people in the hospital and our hospitals are already really stretched with Delta, especially in the northern part of the country.

4. Helen Steiner Rice:

   Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.

5. Bryan Holler:

   Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what James Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DAY
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=DAY
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Day
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DAY
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DAY
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DAY
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=DAY
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=DAY
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html