day

Meaning

Noun

1. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
2. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
3. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
4. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
5. (informal) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
6. 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.
7. The rotational period of a planet.
8. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
9. An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
10. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
11. A period of contention of a day or less.

Verb

To spend a day (in a place).

Opposite of

night, daytime

Synonyms

daytime

daylight

sun

🌞

time

⌚

date

📅

month

occasion

noon

🕛

hour of birth

twenty-four hours

calendar day

epoch

sidereal day

period

24-hour interval

mean solar day

twenty-four hour period

solar day

day before yesterday

instant

hour

daily

one day

by day

24 hours

night

🌃

morning

today

single time

age

term

season

24-hour period

job

day by day

heaven

good luck

rather

quite

God

Friday

appointment

opportunity

opening

experience

one

event

clocking

now

era

Translations

jour

día

giorno

Tag

dia

dag

journée

dia

dies

μέρα

ημέρα

gün

يوم

Pronounced as (IPA)

/deɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: day

Inherited from Old English: dæġ

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Dai

Cognate with Western Frisian: dei

Cognate with Dutch: dag

Cognate with Swiss German: Däi

Cognate with German: Tag

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: -

Cognate with Danish: dag

Cognate with Icelandic: dagur

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃

Cognate with Albanian: djeg

Cognate with Lithuanian: degti

Cognate with Tokharian A: tsäk-

Cognate with Russian: жечь

Cognate with Sanskrit: दाह

Cognate with Latin: foveō

In summary

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.
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Sentences

Tomorrow is another day .

From that day on , it was the desert that would be important .

The next day , the boy returned to the well , hoping to see the girl .

He supposedly was working that day .

That day , the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display .

The driver died the following day , and the stoker a few days after that .