Word.ws English Dictionary

all day

/ɔːl deɪ/

all day adverb: for the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.

Adverb

all day (not comparable)

  1. For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.
    • There hasn't been a breath of wind all day.
    • So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
      They cannot see the sun on high:
      The wind hath blown a gale all day;
      At evening it hath died away.1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock
  2. (figuratively) Easily; handily; in spades; by far.
    • Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.
  3. (slang) In total.
    • Table 2 needs three tacos, and Table 4 needs six, so that's nine tacos, all day.

all day meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Arabic

all day in Hindi

the entire day
दिन भर din bhar, सारे दिन sāre din

all day in Tamil

the entire day
நாள் முழுக்க nāḷ muḻukka

all day in Urdu

the entire day
سارے دن sāre din

all day in Arabic

the entire day
طُول اَلْيَوْم ṭūl al-yawm, طُول اَلنَّهَار ṭūl an-nahār, كُلّ اَلْيَوْم kull al-yawm
More languagesFewer languages
all day in Indonesian
seharian
all day in Vietnamese
cả ngày, suốt ngày

Words formed from all day

Questions about all day

What does all day mean?
All day means for the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.
What is all day in Hindi?
All day in Hindi is दिन भर (din bhar), सारे दिन (sāre din). See All day meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is all day?
All day is an adverb.
How do you pronounce all day?
All day is pronounced /ɔːl deɪ/.

Words near all day in the dictionary

  1. all clears
  2. all comers
  3. all correct
  4. all cows eat grass
  5. all cry and no wool
  6. all day
  7. all dogged up
  8. all dogged-up
  9. all dressed
  10. all dressed up and no place to go
  11. all dressed up and nowhere to go

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: all day (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-all day.wav.

Cite this entry: “all day.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/all_day. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.