Word Finder - day

definition

Any period of 24 hours.

example

I've been here for two days and a bit.

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A period from midnight to the following midnight.

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The day begins at midnight.

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Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

example

A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

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The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

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I worked two days last week.

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Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

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day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.

synonyms

• daylight
• upsun

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A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

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Every dog has its day.

synonyms

• epoch
• era

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A period of contention of a day or less.

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The day belonged to the Allies.

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A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

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Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.

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To spend a day (in a place).

It was midsummer, and the day was very hot.

One day there was a great storm.

She had a rough day yesterday.

There had been an instant bond between them from the day they met.

One day it wouldn't start.

Lisa came home from the hospital the day before the funeral and Connie insisted on staying with her for a while.

Every day there is much work to be done.

I'll race the miserable wooden donkey any day in the week! cried the cab-horse.

The day isn't getting any longer.

No, she had seen the postman drive up every day since she sent out the letter.

Is this what you do out here all day long?

One day he was lying under a tree, thinking of his misfortunes.

The service on Christmas Eve day was, of course, about Jesus.

By the time she had cleaned the house and finished the laundry, the day was getting hot and sticky.

She felt responsible for the fact that Brandon didn't have that last day with his father.

One day I'm a boring financial planner, and the next day, I can't go out in sunlight and I see the future.

One day King Henry the Fourth of France was hunting in a large forest.

I am not saying if you enjoy manual labor and being exhausted at the end of the day, you shouldn't do it.

Such a pleasant day and evening should have ended with a restful night and happy dreams, but it didn't.

The balmy weather of Thanksgiving Day had given way to a frosty day after.

After that I got to thinking how nice it would be if I had someone to cook me a meal every day.

The very next day she was straining over the counter to reach behind the stove when Cade came into the kitchen.

I could use a day cleaning up the barn.

The next day Cade worked close to the house - trying to keep an eye on her, no doubt.

He was wasting a day because of her.

Was that why he had kissed her that day?

Every day I stay in this house I degrade myself further.

I thought maybe that was what you were trying to tell me that day at the hay field.

We accomplished little the rest of the day.

She rose, bored after being trapped alone the whole day in the condo, and peered through the peephole.

Where is Ne'Rin this day?

It was a heavenly day.

He might be seen every day with a bag of charcoal on his back, carrying it to some of his customers.

Then came a day when the chill air portended a snowstorm.

The first day I had German.

She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to everyone.

Anyway she finally got so lonely and depressed that she locked herself in her room one day and shot herself.

And then that day we rode together.

Then the day you fell on the ladder and I caught you - I figured you suspected then.

That's the culmination of the thirty day trial.

No need to cry on such a pretty day, little one.

We agreed the tests were finished for the day but mellowed by wine; we spent two more evening hours summarizing our findings.

The newly christened Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gustefson were finally merged into one apartment and blissfully drifting back to a day to day routine.

He's never out more than ten to twenty minutes at a time and three or four sessions make a heavy day.

Betsy screamed, It's like if The Lord Jesus was standing here, writing a mother's day card to the Virgin Mary, you'd be sitting around on your asses discussing if it was really the month of May!

Perhaps enough of the euphoria of the prior day's success remained that, surprisingly, a reluctant agreement was reached.

I trudged through a boring day, knowing I'd return to an empty apartment as Betsy was off to Los Angeles for the entire week.

It's difficult out on the road to hide them more than a day or two.

Saturday and Sunday were both productive days with four sessions taking place each day.

Howie would first go back to earlier in the day and document precise activities of the director; we hoped they'd be sufficient for him to believe our abilities.