Day
A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day.
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... Yom Yerushalayim (יום ירושלים) — 28 Iyar Jerusalem Day marks the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem and The Temple Mount under Jewish rule ...
... To distinguish between a full day and daytime, the word nychthemeron (from Greek for a night and a day) may be used in English for the former, or more colloquially ... Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, s ... In Italian, giorno is used to indicate a full day, while dì means daytime ...
... In Western Christianity, All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, is observed principally in the Catholic Church ... Church observes several All Souls' Days during the year ... the celebration, not necessarily on the same date, is known as Day of the Dead ...
... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ... There are 310 days remaining until the end of the year (311 in leap years) ... By Roman custom, February 24 is the day added to a leap year in the Julian calendar ...
... Christian Feast Day Engelbert II of Berg Herculanus of Perugia Prosdocimus Vicente Liem de la Paz Willibrord November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Commemoration Day, the anniversary of ... (Tunisia) National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees ... (Northern Catalonia) National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh) October Revolution Day (the Soviet Union (former, official), modern Russia (unofficial), Belarus, Kyrgyzstan) ...
More definitions of "day":
- (noun): The period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis.
Example: "How long is a day on Jupiter?"
- (noun): Some point or period in time.
Example: "It should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"
- (noun): The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside.
Example: "The dawn turned night into day"
Synonyms: daytime, daylight
- (noun): Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
Example: "They put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"
Synonyms: twenty-four hours, solar day, mean solar day
- (noun): An era of existence or influence.
Example: "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"
- (noun): The recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working).
Example: "My day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed"
- (noun): United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935).
Synonyms: Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.
- (noun): A day assigned to a particular purpose or observance.
Example: "Mother's Day"
- (noun): The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
Synonyms: sidereal day
Famous quotes containing the word day:
“Old Day the gardener seemed
Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
by the sundial and freshly-dug
grave in my book of parables.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The years of imprisonment hardened me.... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear. ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.”
—Winnie Mandela (b. 1936)