day

Meanings

Noun

• Any period of 24 hours.
• A period from midnight to the following midnight.
• Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
• The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
• Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
• A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
• A period of contention of a day or less.
• A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

Verb

• To spend a day (in a place).

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bad hair day
• Bastille Day
• birthday
• Boxing Day
• bridal day
• calendar day
• Canada Day
• Christmas Day
• civil day
• Day of Atonement
• Day of Judgment
• day of reckoning
• day of rest
• Days of Awe
• days of grace
• D-Day
• dollar day
• doomsday
• duvet day
• feast day
• field day
• flag day
• Flag Day
• foreday
• Friday
• heyday
• holiday
• holy day
• judgment day
• lifeday
• loveday
• May Day
• midday
• Monday
• name day
• New Year's Day
• noonday
• one day
• payday
• polling day
• rainy day
• rest day
• saint's day
• Saturday
• sick day
• solar day
• someday
• St. Andrew's Day
• St. David's Day
• St. George's Day
• St. Patrick's Day
• St. Stephen's Day
• Sunday
• synodic day
• the other day
• Thursday
• Twelfth Day
• Tuesday
• Victoria day
• wedding day
• Wednesday
• weekday
• workday
• working day

Broader meaning words

• time
• week
• month
• year

Origin

• From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ ("day"), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz ("day"), from Proto-Indo-European, from *dʰegʷʰ-.
• Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai ("day"), West Frisian dei ("day"), Dutch dag ("day"), German Low German Dag ("day"), Alemannic German Däi, German Tag ("day"), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag ("day"), Icelandic dagur ("day"), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 ("dags"). Cognate also with Albanian djeg ("to burn"), Lithuanian degti ("to burn"), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь ("to burn") from *degti, дёготь, Sanskrit दाह ("heat"), दहति, Latin foveō ("to warm, keep warm, incubate").
• is a false cognate; it derives from .