Definition of day

"day" in the noun sense

1. day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

"two days later they left"

"they put on two performances every day"

"there are 30,000 passengers per day"

2. day

some point or period in time

"it should arrive any day now"

"after that day she never trusted him again"

"those were the days"

"these days it is not unusual"

3. day

a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance

"Mother's Day"

4. day, daytime, daylight

the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

"the dawn turned night into day"

"it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

5. day

the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working

"my day began early this morning"

"it was a busy day on the stock exchange"

"she called it a day and went to bed"

6. day

an era of existence or influence

"in the day of the dinosaurs"

"in the days of the Roman Empire"

"in the days of sailing ships"

"he was a successful pianist in his day"

7. day

the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis

"how long is a day on Jupiter?"

8. sidereal day, day

the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day

9. day

a period of opportunity

"he deserves his day in court"

"every dog has his day"

10. Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.

United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)

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Quotations for day

Death will have his day. [ William Shakespeare ]

News, the manna of a day. [ Green ]

Death's day is doom's day. [ Proverb ]

Life is but a day at most. [ Burns ]

Who loses a day loses life. [ Emerson ]

Every dog must have his day. [ Swift ]

And God called the light day. [ Bible ]

Live this day as if the last. [ Bishop Kerr ]

Rome was not built in one day. [ Heywood ]

Night is the clever man's day. [ Al-Barmaki ]

There is no day without sorrow. [ Seneca ]

A blustering night, a fair day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The better day the better deed. [ Proverb ]

Every man has his appointed day. [ Virgil ]

One day is pressed on by another. [ Horace ]

One glance of Thine creates a day. [ Watts ]

The eye of day hath oped its lids. [ William Shakespeare ]

For the rain it raineth every day. [ William Shakespeare ]

A foul morn may turn to a fair day. [ Proverb ]

All but God is changing day by day. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Night is a lively masquerade of day. [ J. Montgomery ]

No day is without its innocent hope. [ Ruskin ]

The great shadow and profile of day. [ Richter ]

A misty morning may have a fine day. [ Proverb ]

Ennui was born one day of uniformity. [ Motte ]

Each day is the scholar of yesterday. [ Publius Syrus ]

Dark lattice! letting in eternal day. [ Young ]

The longest day soon comes to an end. [ Pliny the Younger ]

A fool wants his cloak in a rainy day. [ Proverb ]

The spirit walks of every day deceased. [ Young ]

So ends the bloody business of the day. [ Homer ]

A day for God to stoop, and man to soar. [ Tennyson ]

He who has lived a day has lived an age. [ Bruyere ]

Choose you this day whom ye shall serve. [ Bible ]

Alike every day makes a clout on Sunday. [ Proverb ]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]

Youth without faith is a day without sun. [ Ouida ]

Yet eat in dreams, the custard of the day. [ Pope ]

What a day may bring, a day may take away. [ Proverb ]

The night is long that never finds the day. [ Macbeth ]

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. [ Bible ]

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. [ Lord Falkland ]

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Apelles was not a master-painter the first day. [ Proverb ]

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. [ Collins ]

The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. [ Webster ]

Night followeth day, as a shadow followeth a body. [ Aristotle ]

A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. [ William Hooke ]

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. [ Dickens ]

Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-top. [ William Shakespeare ]

A day to come shews longer than a year that's gone. [ Proverb ]

This day we fashion destiny, our web of fate we spin. [ Whittier ]

The finest day of life is that on which one quits it. [ Frederick the Great ]

Believe that each day is the last to shine upon thee. [ Horace ]

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. [ A. de Musset ]

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light. [ Emerson ]

A good day will not mend him, nor a bad day impair him. [ Proverb ]

In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. [ Auson. of the rose ]

This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention. [ Whipple ]

Believe that each day which shines upon you is the last. [ Horace ]

A day will come when fair dealing will be found a jewel. [ Proverb ]

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which preceded. [ Publius Syrus ]

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day. [ William Shakespeare ]

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. [ Emerson ]

Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. [ Horace ]

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. [ Theodore Parker ]

The character of the common people changes in a single day. [ Voltaire ]

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. [ Alexander Smith ]

Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day. [ Lamartine ]

A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years. [ French Proverb ]

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. [ Proverbs ]

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. [ Martial ]

The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Frail empire of a day! That with the setting sun extinct is lost. [ Somerville ]

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]

The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. [ Tennyson ]

As night succeeds the day, so do joy and grief succeed each other. [ Sophocles ]

When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [ Cicero ]

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. [ Ouida ]

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity! [ William Shakespeare ]

Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. [ Horace ]

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away? [ Longfellow ]

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts. [ Rogers ]

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to suffice for a man. [ Dr. George Fordyce ]

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. [ Beaconsfield ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. [ Lavater ]

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold can bribe the poor possession of a day. [ Homer ]

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [ Goethe ]

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. [ Bible ]

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! [ Longfellow ]

Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

day in Scrabble®

The word day is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters day:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word day

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The 41 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In day

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day in Words With Friends™

The word day is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters day:

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The 42 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In day

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Word Growth involving day

Shorter words in day

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Longer words containing day

birthday birthdays unbirthdays

birthday unbirthday unbirthdays

daybed daybeds

daybook daybooks

daybreak daybreaks

daycare daycares

daycentre daycentres

daydream daydreamed

daydream daydreamer daydreamers

daydream daydreaming

daydream daydreamlike

daydream daydreams

dayflies

dayflower dayflowers

dayfly

daylength daylengths

dayless

daylight daylighted

daylight daylighting

daylight daylights

daylight predaylight

daylilies

daylily

daylong

daymarks

daypack daypacks

days birthdays unbirthdays

days dayshift dayshifts

days deathdays

days dogdays

days doomsdays

days foredays

days fridays

days heydays

days hobdays

days holidays

days ilkadays

days maydays

days middays

days mondays

days nowadays

days paydays

days playdays

days raindays

days saturdays

days schooldays

days somedays

days sundays

days thursdays

days todays

days tuesdays

days washdays

days wednesdays

days weekdays

days workadays

days workdays

days yesterdays

daytide daytides

daytime daytimer daytimers

daytime daytimes

daytime predaytime

daytrader daytraders

daytrip daytripper daytrippers

daytrip daytrips

daywork dayworker dayworkers

daywork dayworks

deathday deathdays

dogday dogdays

doomsday doomsdayer doomsdayers

doomsday doomsdays

everyday

foreday foredays

friday fridays

heyday heydays

hobday hobdayed

hobday hobdaying

hobday hobdays

holiday holidayed

holiday holidayer holidayers

holiday holidaying

holiday holidaymaker holidaymakers

holiday holidays

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ilkaday ilkadays

mayday maydays

midday middays

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monday mondays

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payday paydays

playday playdays

rainday raindays

saturday saturdays

schoolday schooldays

someday somedays

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sunday sundays

thursday thursdays

today todays

tuesday tuesdays

washday washdays

wednesday wednesdays

weekday weekdays

workaday workadays

workday workdays

yesterday yesterdays