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plural days
The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky. quotations examples
The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, […].
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
A period of time roughly equal to the length of daytime and nighttime together.
The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day. examples
The time taken by the Earth to rotate about its axis; a sidereal day. examples
(informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
(Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall. examples
(astronomy) The rotational period of a planet. examples
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. quotations examples
“ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era. quotations examples
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press
A period of contention of a day or less. examples
third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed
(rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place). quotations
I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233