day
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
How often you will meet it
Rank 113 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 225,734 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.107% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis also: twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day two days later they leftthey put on two performances every day
- some point or period in time it should arrive any day nowafter that day she never trusted him again
- a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance Mother's Day
- the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside also: daytime, daylight the dawn turned night into dayit is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
- the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) my day began early this morningit was a busy day on the stock exchange
- an era of existence or influence in the day of the dinosaursin the days of the Roman Empire
day in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It is a terrible snowy day still.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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I couldn’t be happy if I didn’t see him every day.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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My guests tonight are gay And fain would turn this winter's night to day.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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It is, perhaps, the most critical single day of the four years' course at the University.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Hand in hand the two little mountaineers had crossed the threshold of a new world that day.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1