Word.ws English Dictionary

day's residue

day's residue noun: the elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.

Noun

day's residue (plural days' residues)

  1. The elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.

Forms of day's residue

pluraldays' residues
alternative formday residue

Origin of day's residue

Calque of German Tagesreste, coined by Sigmund Freud.

Questions about day's residue

What does day's residue mean?
Day's residue means the elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.
What part of speech is day's residue?
Day's residue is a noun.
What is the plural of day's residue?
The plural of day's residue is days' residues.

Words near day's residue in the dictionary

  1. day work
  2. day worker
  3. day's age
  4. day's math
  5. day's maths
  6. day's residue
  7. day-after recall test
  8. day-after recall tests
  9. day-age
  10. day-age creationism
  11. day-age creationist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: day's residue (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:

Cite this entry: “day's residue.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/day%27s_residue. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.