days
the time during which someone's life continues
How often you will meet it
Rank 245 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 91,060 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.043% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the time during which someone's life continues also: years the monarch's last daysin his final years
days 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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Occasionally she referred to her husband over a question of days or dates.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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All her innocent, solitary, dreamy days quite over, her happiness vanished; her regrets become a crime.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Ford's wound was not dangerous and in a few days he was able to be around again.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Two days ago he had met the girl here with Brant, and she had stopped and shaken hands.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1