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day `noun` [ deɪ ]

• each of the twenty-four-hour periods, reckoned from one midnight to the next, into which a week, month, or year is divided, and corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis.

• "they only met a few days ago"

Similar: twenty-four-hour period, full day, twenty-four hours, working day, solar day, sidereal day,

• a particular period of the past; an era.

• "in Shakespeare's day"

Similar: period, time, point in time, age, era, epoch, generation,

Origin: Old English dæg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dag and German Tag .

day by day

• on each successive day; gradually and steadily.

• "day by day I grew worse"

Similar: gradually, bit by bit, by degrees, by stages, inchmeal, inch by inch, little by little, step by step, slowly, slowly but surely, steadily, progressively, daily, every day, day after day, a day at a time, diurnally,

Opposite: all at once,

all in a day's work

• (of something unusual or difficult) accepted as part of someone's normal routine or as a matter of course.
"dodging sharks is all in a day's work for some scientists"

any day

• at any time or under any circumstances (used to express a strong opinion or preference).
"we could beat them any day"

by the day

• gradually and steadily.
"the campaign is growing by the day"

call it a day

• decide or agree to stop doing something.
"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day"

day after day

• on each successive day over a long period.
"the rain poured down day after day"

day and night

• all the time.
"the district is patrolled day and night"

day by day

• on each successive day; gradually and steadily.
"day by day I grew worse"

day in, day out

• continuously or repeatedly over a long period of time.
"I worked with you day in, day out"

day of reckoning

• the time when past mistakes or misdeeds must be punished or paid for.
"a day of reckoning will come for those in the security service"

from day one

• from the very beginning.
"children need a firm hand from day one"

have all day

• be in no hurry.
"people who don't have all day to queue"

have had one's day

• be no longer popular, successful, or influential.
"he has had his day and there is no one prepared to tell him so"

if one is a day

• at least (appended to a statement about a person's age).
"he must be seventy if he's a day"

in this day and age

• at the present time.
"you can't be too careful in this day and age"

not someone's day

• used to convey that someone has experienced a day of successive misfortunes.
"not your day, is it, darling"

one day

• at a particular but unspecified time in the past.
"one day a boy started teasing Grady"

one of those days

• a day when several things go wrong.
"it was just one of those days"

that will be the day

• that is very unlikely.
"‘I may have missed something.’ ‘That'll be the day.’"

these days

• at present.
"he's drinking far too much these days"

those were the days

• used to assert that a particular past time was better than the present.
"the sixties, those were the days"

to the day

• exactly.
"it's four years to the day since he was killed"

to this day

• at the present time as in the past; still.
"the tradition continues to this day"