EGAVE

day

About 348.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
    I've been here for two days and a bit.
  4. noun The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun 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 from nightfall to the following nightfall.
    The day begins at midnight.
  8. noun The rotational period of a planet.
    A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

Similar words

daytime daylight mean solar day solar day sidereal day twenty-four hours tomorrow morrow daylong yesterday

Often followed by

of and in to the after or for i

Word family

Clarence Day Clarence Shepard Day Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. Day Thomas Day William Day William R. Day William Rufus Day days

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