day
/deɪ̯/
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, being 24 hours long; The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc; An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday
- plural
- days
Meanings
- 1
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky
That will take all day.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
How are you these days?
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long
- 3
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc
- 4
An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday
- 5
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.; The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar dayrare
- 6
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.; 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 dayrare
- 7
A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunriserare
- 8
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 nightfallrare
- 9
The rotational period of a planetrare
- 10
A day set aside for a specified activityrare