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calendar day

calendar day noun: a timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.

Noun

calendar day (plural calendar days)

  1. A timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.
    • Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours.1997 November 21, “French shopping and lunch from pounds 29”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014
    • The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.2004 June 24, Laura Mansnerus, “Trenton Approves $28 Billion Budget Plan”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 May 2014
    Synonyms:
    civil day
  2. A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.
    • '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day.1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 2, in Essays: Second Series
    • My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, published 2007, →ISBN, page 186

calendar day meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

calendar day in Tamil

நள்ளிரவுசார் நாள்

calendar day in Indonesian

timespan
hari kalender

Examples of calendar day in a sentence

  • "[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."2012 May 2, Simon Burnton, “The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
  • But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.2006 June 5, Jeremy Caplan, “A Devil of a Day”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2014:

Synonyms of calendar day

Forms of calendar day

pluralcalendar days

Questions about calendar day

What does calendar day mean?
Calendar day means a timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.
What is calendar day in Tamil?
Calendar day in Tamil is நள்ளிரவுசார் நாள். See Calendar day meaning in Tamil.
How do you use calendar day in a sentence?
"[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."
What part of speech is calendar day?
Calendar day is a noun.
What is the plural of calendar day?
The plural of calendar day is calendar days.

Words near calendar day in the dictionary

  1. calendar anomaly
  2. calendar call
  3. calendar calls
  4. calendar clock
  5. calendar clocks
  6. calendar day
  7. calendar days
  8. calendar effect
  9. calendar effects
  10. calendar girl
  11. calendar girls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calendar day (page history and authors); calendar day (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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