'Day' definitions:
Definition of 'day'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day]
noun
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"
noun
A day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day"
noun
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" [syn: day, daytime, daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime]
noun
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"
noun
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"
noun
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?"
noun
The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day [syn: sidereal day, day]
noun
A period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"
noun
United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.]
Definition of 'Day'
From: GCIDE
- Day \Day\ (d[=a]), n. [OE. day, dai, dei, AS. d[ae]g; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. [root]69. Cf. Dawn.]
- 1. 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; -- also called daytime. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. [1913 Webster]
- A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day. --Jowett (Thucyd. ) [1913 Webster]
- If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. [1913 Webster]
- The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His name struck fear, his conduct won the day. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as, daybreak, daylight, workday, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Anniversary day. See Anniversary, n.
- Astronomical day, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers.
- Born days. See under Born.
- Canicular days. See Dog day.
- Civil day, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
- Day blindness. (Med.) See Nyctalopia.
- Day by day, or Day after day, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under By. "Day by day we magnify thee." --Book of Common Prayer.
- Days in bank (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.
- Day in court, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit.
- Days of devotion (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.
- Days of grace. See Grace.
- Days of obligation (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.
- Day owl, (Zool.), an owl that flies by day. See Hawk owl.
- Day rule (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day.
- Day school, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school.
- Day sight. (Med.) See Hemeralopia.
- Day's work (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.
- From day to day, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day.
- Jewish day, the time between sunset and sunset.
- Mean solar day (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year.
- One day, One of these days, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. "Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband." --Shak.
- Only from day to day, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon.
- Sidereal day, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.
- To win the day, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler.
- Week day, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
- Working day. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'day'
From: GCIDE
- Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire.]
- 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. [1913 Webster]
- Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc.
- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Day'
From: Easton
- Day The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). "The heat of the day" (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o'clock, and "the cool of the day" just before sunset (Gen. 3:8). Before the Captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches, (1) from sunset to midnight (Lam. 2:19); (2) from midnight till the cock-crowing (Judg. 7:19); and (3) from the cock-crowing till sunrise (Ex. 14:24). In the New Testament the division of the Greeks and Romans into four watches was adopted (Mark 13:35). (See WATCHES.)
- The division of the day by hours is first mentioned in Dan. 3:6, 15; 4:19; 5:5. This mode of reckoning was borrowed from the Chaldeans. The reckoning of twelve hours was from sunrise to sunset, and accordingly the hours were of variable length (John 11:9).
- The word "day" sometimes signifies an indefinite time (Gen. 2:4; Isa. 22:5; Heb. 3:8, etc.). In Job 3:1 it denotes a birthday, and in Isa. 2:12, Acts 17:31, and 2 Tim. 1:18, the great day of final judgment.
Synonyms of 'day'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- aeon,
- age,
- annum,
- annus magnus,
- antedate,
- bissextile year,
- broad day,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- cycle,
- cycle of indiction,
- date,
- date line,
- datemark,
- dawn,
- day glow,
- daylight,
- dayshine,
- daytide,
- daytime,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- dusk,
- epoch,
- era,
- fateful moment,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- full sun,
- generation,
- great year,
- green flash,
- heyday,
- hour,
- indiction,
- instant,
- International Date Line,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- leap year,
- lifetime,
- light,
- light of day,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- midday sun,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- month,
- moon,
- noonlight,
- noontide light,
- period,
- Platonic year,
- point,
- point of time,
- postdate,
- pregnant moment,
- prime,
- psychological moment,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- ray of sunshine,
- regular year,
- season,
- second,
- semester,
- session,
- shine,
- sidereal year,
- solar year,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- sun,
- sun spark,
- sunbeam,
- sunbreak,
- sunburst,
- sunlight,
- sunshine,
- term,
- time,
- time lag,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- twilight,
- week,
- weekday,
- while,
- year
Day -- U.S. County in South Dakota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Day -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000) :
6267
Housing Units (2000) :
3618
Land area (2000) :
1028.574329 sq. miles (2663.995168 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
62.634335 sq. miles (162.222176 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1091.208664 sq. miles (2826.217344 sq. km)
Located within :
South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location :
45.373992 N, 97.572474 W
Words containing 'Day'
- Day after day,
- Day by day,
- From day to day,
- Only from day to day,
- by the day,
- day in and day out,
- day in day out,
- day off,
- days,
- day-after-day,
- day-by-day,
- day-to-day,
- 365 days,
- 366 days,
- Anniversary day,
- Astronomical day,
- Banian days,
- Born days,
- Boxing day,
- Canicular days,
- Canyon Day,
- Chair days,
- Childermas day,
- Christmas day,
- Civil day,
- Class day,
- Clear days,
- Collar day,
- Columbus Day,
- Commemoration day,
- Court day,
- Day County,
- Day Heights,
- Day Valley,
- Day blindness,
- Day in court,
- Day of Atonement,
- Day of grace,
- Day owl,
- Day rule,
- Day school,
- Day sight,
- Day's work,
- Day, SD,
- Days in bank,
- Days of devotion,
- Days of grace,
- Days of obligation,
- Decoration Day,
- Derby Day,
- Discount day,
- Discovery Day,
- Distaff Day,
- Distaff's Day,
- Dog day,
- Dog days,
- Dominion Day,
- Ember days,
- Ending day,
- Enneatical day,
- Essoin day,
- Evacuation day,
- Eye of day,
- Fast day,
- Fasting day,
- Feast day,
- Field day,
- First day,
- Fish day,
- For ever and a day,
- Forefathers' Day,
- Gained day,
- Gala day,
- Gale day,
- Gang days,
- High day,
- Inauguration Day,
- Independence Day,
- Innocents' day,
- Intercalary day,
- Jewish day,
- John Day,
- John Day, OR,
- Judgment day,
- Juridical days,
- Labor Day,
- Lady Day,
- Lammas day,
- Law day,
- Lay days,
- Lord's Day,
- Love day,
- May Day,
- Memorial Day,
- Mother's Day,
- Moving day,
- Natural day,
- One day,
- One of these days,
- Packet day,
- Patriots' Day,
- Pay day,
- Pioneers' Day,
- Planetary days,
- Post day,
- Quarter day,
- Return day,
- Rock Day,
- Rogation days,
- Salad days,
- School days,
- Settling day,
- Seventh day,
- Ship's days,
- Sidereal day,
- Solar day,
- Tag day,
- Term day,
- The Lord's Day,
- The dark day,
- Ticket day,
- Tide day,
- Time of day,
- To win the day,
- To-day,
- Training day,
- Transfer day,
- Trysting day,
- Week day,
- Without day,
- Working day,
- Year and a day,
- admission day,
- all day long,
- all fools' day,
- all saints' day,
- all souls' day,
- ancient of days,
- annunciation day,
- arbor day,
- armistice day,
- ascension day,
- atonement day of,
- bastille day,
- bissextile day,
- break of day,
- break of the day,
- calendar day,
- call it a day,
- candlemas day,
- citizenship day,
- clarence day,
- commencement day,
- commonwealth day,
- day bed,
- day boarder,
- day book,
- day camp,
- day care,
- day fly,
- day game,
- day jessamine,
- day laborer,
- day labourer,
- day lettergrams,
- day letters,
- day lily,
- day nursery,
- day of judgement,
- day of judgment,
- day of reckoning,
- day of remembrance,
- day of rest,
- day of the month,
- day of the week,
- day return,
- day shift,
- day watch,
- days journey,
- degree day,
- early days,
- easter day,
- election day,
- ember day,
- empire day,
- father's day,
- fete day,
- flag day,
- forever and a day,
- future day,
- gain the day,
- gaudy day,
- good day,
- groundhog day,
- holy day,
- jezreel day of,
- judgement day,
- last day,
- leap day,
- lords day,
- lunar day,
- market day,
- michaelmas day,
- midsummer day,
- midsummer's day,
- name day,
- natal day,
- night and day,
- off-day,
- old days,
- order of the day,
- pancake day,
- patriot's day,
- polling day,
- poppy day,
- present day,
- presidents' day,
- rag day,
- rainy day,
- remembrance day,
- rest day,
- rogation day,
- saint's day,
- school day,
- seize the day,
- speech day,
- thanksgiving day,
- transfiguration day,
- twelfth day,
- unlucky day,
- valentine day,
- valentine's day,
- veterans day,
- veterans' day,
- victoria day,
- victory day,
- washing day,
- wedding day,
- work day,
- Canyon Day, AZ,
- Cross-days,
- D-day,
- Day County, SD,
- Day Heights, OH,
- Day Valley, CA,
- Day-coal,
- Day-labor,
- Day-laborer,
- Day-net,
- Day-peep,
- Gaud-day,
- Guy Fawkes Day,
- Holy Innocent's Day,
- Holy Innocents' day,
- Mean solar day,
- New Year's Day,
- Saint Distaff's Day,
- Saint Patrick's Day,
- St Valentine's Day,
- To give the time of day,
- To hold one's day,
- Twelfth-day,
- Working-day,
- all-day sucker,
- american indian day,
- april fools' day,
- armed forces day,
- christian holy day,
- day care center,
- day-and-night,
- day-old,
- day-star,
- dog-days,
- eight-day,
- good old days,
- high holy day,
- holy day of obligation,
- jewish holy day,
- latter-day,
- major fast day,
- minor fast day,
- modern-day,
- naked as the day you were born,
- not worth a day's purchase,
- pan american day,
- present-day,
- sabbath days journey,
- saint valentine's day,
- seven-day,
- six day war,
- st john's day,
- st martin's day,
- st patrick's day,
- texas independence day,
- three kings' day,
- united nations day,
- v-day,
- Holy-cross day,
- Latter-day saint,
- Red-letter day,
- Sabbath-day's journey,
- Seventh-day Baptists,
- Seventh-day Dunkers,
- clarence shepard day jr.,
- dog-day cicada,
- martin luther king day,
- naked as the day one was born,
- robert e lee day,
- seventh-day adventism,
- six-day war,
- ten-day fern,
- three-day event,
- three-day measles,
- v-e day,
- v-j day,
- Peep-o'-day boys,
- church of jesus christ of latter-day saints