Definition of day Day
/dejˈ/ - [dey] - Day
We found 31 definitions of day from 8 different sources.
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What does day mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: days |
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| day - a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day" | ||
| calendar day, civil day a day reckoned from midnight to midnight | ||
| admission day in some states of the United States: a legal holiday commemorating the day the state was admitted to the Union | ||
| arbor day a day designated for planting trees | ||
| cinco de mayo the fifth of May which is observed in Mexico and Mexican-American communities in the United States to commemorate the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862 | ||
| commencement day, degree day the day on which university degrees are conferred | ||
| november 5 anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot | ||
| inauguration day, january 20 the day designated for inauguration of the United States President | ||
| bissextile day, february 29, leap day the name of the day that is added during a leap year | ||
| v-day, victory day the day of a victory | ||
| rag day a day on which university students hold a rag | ||
| red-letter day a memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars) | ||
| payday the day on which you receive pay for your work | ||
| election day, polling day the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November | ||
| field day a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | ||
| field day a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | ||
| ides in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month | ||
| market day a fixed day for holding a public market | ||
| walpurgis night eve of May Day | ||
| december 31, new year's eve the last day of the year | ||
| january 19, lee's birthday, robert e lee's birthday, robert e lee day celebrated in southern United States | ||
| tet the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th | ||
| holiday a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover" | ||
| february 2, groundhog day if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter | ||
| february 12, lincoln's birthday the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered | ||
| february 14, saint valentine's day, st valentine's day, valentine's day, valentine day a day for the exchange of tokens of affection | ||
| february 22, washington's birthday the day on which George Washington is remembered | ||
| march 2, texas independence day Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836 | ||
| march 17, saint patrick's day, st patrick's day a day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland | ||
| all fools' day, april fools', april fools' day the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes | ||
| april 14, pan american day a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries | ||
| patriot's day the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775 | ||
| first of may, may 1, may day observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor | ||
| mother's day second Sunday in May | ||
| armed forces day the 3rd Saturday in May | ||
| davis' birthday, jefferson davis' birthday, june 3 celebrated in southern United States | ||
| flag day, june 14 commemorating the adoption of the United States flag in 1777 | ||
| father's day US: third Sunday in June | ||
| citizenship day, september 17 celebrated in the United States | ||
| american indian day US: the 4th Friday in September | ||
| october 24, united nations day a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations | ||
| allhallows eve, hallowe'en, halloween the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people | ||
| saint's day a day commemorating a saint | ||
| june 23, midsummer eve, midsummer night, st john's eve, st john's night the night before Midsummer Day | ||
| school day any day on which school is in session; "go to bed early because tomorrow is a school day" | ||
| speech day an annual day in the schools when speeches are made and prizes are distributed | ||
| washday, washing day a day set aside for doing household laundry | ||
| wedding day the day of a wedding | ||
| day - 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" | ||
| twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day | ||
| time unit, unit of time a unit for measuring time periods | ||
| tomorrow the day after today; "what are our tasks for tomorrow?" | ||
| today the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?" | ||
| yesterday the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers" | ||
| morrow the next day; "whenever he arrives she leaves on the morrow" | ||
| eve (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden | ||
| day of the month, date sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | ||
| date sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | ||
| daytime, daylight, day light during the daytime | ||
| high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon the middle of the day | ||
| nighttime, dark, night an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" | ||
| day - 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" | ||
| daytime, daylight | ||
| nighttime, dark, night an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
| 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours, day United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) | ||
| forenoon, morn, morning time, morning the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" | ||
| afternoon the part of the day between noon and evening; "he spent a quiet afternoon in the park" | ||
| midafternoon the middle part of the afternoon | ||
| day - 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" | ||
| time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | ||
| crack of doom, last judgement, last day, judgment day, judgement day, eschaton, day of judgment, day of judgement, last judgment, end of the world, doomsday, day of reckoning (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | ||
| day - 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" | ||
| work time a time period when you are required to work | ||
| day - 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?" | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
| day - United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) | ||
| Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr. | ||
| day - a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day" | ||
| day - 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" | ||
| day - the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | ||
| sidereal day | ||
| time unit, unit of time a unit for measuring time periods | ||
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Wiktionary 
- day (Noun)
Any period of 24 hours. - day (Noun)
A period from midnight to the following midnight. - day (Noun)
Rotational period of a planet especially earth. - day (Noun)
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. - day (Noun)
Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime. - day (Noun)
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. - day (Noun)
A period of contention of a day or less. - day (Verb)
To spend a day in a place.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- day (n.)
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. - day (n.)
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. - day (n.)
Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. - day (n.)
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. - day (n.)
(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight. -
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A period of time lasting 24 hours -
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The period of time from one midnight to the next, seven of which consitutes a week -
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A language of Chad.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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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.)
Wikipedia 
- A day is the time it takes the Earth to spin around once. It is day time on the side of the Earth that is facing the Sun. When it is night time, that side of the earth is facing away from the Sun. It takes 24 hours for the earth to spin once, so that is one day, including the day time and night time.
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🔤- day, noun, singular of days.
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