adv
Meaning 1
During the day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- She works days at the garage.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: by day
Antonyms: nights
Standard Lemma guide
days
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈdeɪz/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈdɛjz/
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rhymes with -eɪz
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homophone: daze
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CMU ARPABET: D EY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
plural of day
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A particular time or period of vague extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
- His days of being the king are over.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- That's how he ended his days.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
third-person singular simple present indicative of day
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the time during which someone's life continues
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the monarch's last days
- in his final years
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: years
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: life
History
Etymology
From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).
From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: om dagen — during the day
- German: tagsüber — during the day
- German: tags — during the day
- German: am Tag — during the day
- Hungarian: nappal — during the day
- Romanian: ziua — during the day
- Turkish: gündüzleri — during the day
- Turkish: gündüzleyin — during the day
- Turkish: sabahları — during the day
- Turkish: sabahleyin — during the day
- Arabic: أَيَّام (ʔayyām) — life
- Danish: dage — life
- German: Tage — life
- Malayalam: ദിവസങ്ങൾ (divasaṅṅaḷ) — life
- Norwegian Bokmål: dager — life
- Portuguese: vida — life
- Portuguese: dia-a-dia — life
- Romanian: zile — life
- Russian: дни (dni) — life