Day

Definitions of "day"

• The period of light between dawn and nightfall; the interval from sunrise to sunset. noun
• noun
• The 24-hour period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis, traditionally measured from midnight to midnight. noun
• The period during which a celestial body makes a similar rotation. noun
• One of the numbered 24-hour periods into which a week, month, or year is divided. noun
• The portion of a 24-hour period that is devoted to work, school, or business. noun
• A 24-hour period or a portion of it that is reserved for a certain activity. noun
• noun
• A specific, characteristic period in one's lifetime. noun
• A period of opportunity or prominence. noun
• A period of time in history; an era. noun
• Period of life or activity. noun
• Of or relating to the day. adjective
• Working during the day. adjective
• Occurring before nightfall. adjective
• (day after day) For many days; continuously. idiom
• (day in, day out) Every day without fail; continuously. idiom
• (one day) Someday. idiom
• (one of these days) Someday. idiom

The word "day" in example sentences

Not an eventful day but a relaxing day… witch is what I need.. [goldenboy Diary Entry]

Then calculate the calorific value (per person per day) for each commodity (use Table 3) and fill the row “Targeted ration Kcal/person/day”. [Chapter 13]

Once more the evil in Velo's soul was crying to him, shouting to him, "This is your day -- _this is your day_!". [Shelled by an Unseen Foe]

The account closes the work of each day with the words: "_And the evening and the morning were the first day_," "_the second day_," etc.. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality]

Which has been improved by some, on this side the water, into an excuse for getting drunk every day in the week, for fear that the _specific day_ should be missed.. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829]

_For which cause we faint not; but, though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day_.. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs]

A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my wood pile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly _day day day_, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery _phe-be_ from the wood-side.. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7]

_One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day_.. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs]

Quite right, too; it wasn't an especially fine day; just _a day_.. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers]

Will it be called “day by day” when there will be one eternal day?. [On the Lord's Prayer]

” Now it is called “day by day” when one day passes away and another day succeeds.. [On the Lord's Prayer]

He tells them in chapter iv. 16 that "_the inward man is renewed day by day_.". [The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church]

Th 'ain't never been but one time in these two years thet she has, to say, got me out o' temper, an 'that was the day she said to me thet her sure belief was thet Sonny was goin' to _make somethin 'out'n hisself some day_ -- like ez ef he hadn't already made mo' 'n could be expected of a boy of his age.. [Sonny, a Christmas Guest]

If the speed of rotation be abating, then the length of the day must be increasing; and hence we are conducted to the following most important statement: that the _tides are increasing the length of the day_.. [The Story of the Heavens]

And it may be suggested also that the twice-repeated notice of time in the context of St. Luke, 'I do cures _to-day and to-morrow, and the third day_ I shall be perfected,' 'I must walk _to-day and to-morrow and the day following_,' points to the very duration of our Lord's ministry, as indicated by the fourth Gospel.. [A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays]

-- Our position now regarding the Orphan work is, praying day by day 'Give us _this day_ our _daily_ bread'.. [Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives]