Dayname詞源 1/deɪ/

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  A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval diminutive of David.

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  An English surname originating as an occupation from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer, or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.

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  A surname from Irish can be found as both Day and O'Day from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).

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  A number of places in the United States:

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Dayname詞源 2

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  A Mbum-Day language of Chad.

daynoun/deɪ̯/

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  The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.

  • day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.
  • 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,[…].
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  A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.

  • Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour
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  A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.

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  A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.

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  informalclimatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

  • Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
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  A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.

  • The day begins at midnight.
  • Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
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  astronomynatural-sciencesThe rotational period of a planet.

  • A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
  • Radio emissions indicate that a Neptunian day lasts 16.1 hours, an hour and a half shorter than previously thought.
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  The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

  • I worked two days last week.
  • “[…]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.[…]”

dayverb/deɪ̯/

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  rareTo spend a day (in a place).

  • I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]