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Day

noun

1.

Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis. Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours. "They put on two performances every day" , "There are 30,000 passengers per day"

2.

Some point or period in time. "After that day she never trusted him again" , "Those were the days" , "These days it is not unusual"

3.

A day assigned to a particular purpose or observance.

4.

The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside. Synonyms: daylight, daytime. "It is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

5.

The recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working). "It was a busy day on the stock exchange" , "She called it a day and went to bed"

6.

An era of existence or influence. "In the days of the Roman Empire" , "In the days of sailing ships" , "He was a successful pianist in his day"

7.

The period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis.

8.

The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day. Synonym: sidereal day.

9.

A period of opportunity. "Every dog has his day"

10.

United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935). Synonyms: Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr..

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"Day" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Homer does not mean that dawn 'ends' the day, but 'when the fair-tressed Dawn brought the full light of the third day' ...

— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang

... honorably, and courageously will not be denied. His contemporary, Lord Shaftesbury, noted his death in his own journal with this just comment: "To have begun with disapprobation, to have fought through many difficulties, to have announced and acted on principles new to the day in which he lived, to have filled many important offices, to have made many speeches and written many books, and in his whole course to have done much with credit and nothing with dishonor, and so to have sustained ...

— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy

... he always made it a rule to dilate upon subjects and countries with which he had no acquaintance, and he expressed himself in so affected a manner, and with such an amplification of useless phraseology, that, though he was always talking, they seemed at the end of the day to be little more acquainted with the Ansarey and their sovereign than when Baroni first opened the subject of their visit to Darkush ...

— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them to be good to-day may be superseded by something better-to-morrow. I do not give all these opinions as true, but I quote them as characteristic of ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... through without let or hindrance. I'm beyond advice on that subject. Carpets and curtains shall fade rather than wife and babies. My windows yawn like barn-doors. There isn't a room in the house that won't have the sun a part of the day, and he looks into the sitting-room from the moment his cloudy bedclothes are thrown off in the morning, till he hides his face behind Mount Tom at night. My glass bill will count up, but I'd rather pay for glass in windows than for iron ...

— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

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