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day after day

day after day adverb: for an indefinite number of days.

Adverb

day after day (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) For an indefinite number of days.
    • Day after day they added entries.
    • The images we see day after day numb us.

day after day meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic and Malay

day after day in Hindi

For an indefinite number of days
तारीख पे तारीख tārīkh pe tārīkh, तारीख पर तारीख tārīkh par tārīkh, दिन प्रतिदिन din pratidin

day after day in Malayalam

repeatedly, again and again, over and over (again)
ദിവസേന, പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും, വാരേണ, ആവർത്തിച്ച്, ഭൂയോഭൂയ, വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും

day after day in Arabic

For an indefinite number of days
يَوْمًا بَعْدَ يَوْم yawman baʕda yawm

day after day in Malay

For an indefinite number of days
hari demi hari
More languagesFewer languages
day after day in Vietnamese
ngày này qua ngày khác

Examples of day after day in a sentence

  • Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371:
  • And YOU can start washing your OWN clothes, and fixing your OWN meals, and picking up your OWN toys, and making your OWN bed, and cleaning up your OWN messes, day after day after DAY!1989 July 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic strip):

Questions about day after day

What does day after day mean?
Day after day means for an indefinite number of days.
What is day after day in Hindi?
Day after day in Hindi is तारीख पे तारीख (tārīkh pe tārīkh), तारीख पर तारीख (tārīkh par tārīkh), दिन प्रतिदिन (din pratidin). See Day after day meaning in Hindi.
How do you use day after day in a sentence?
Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.
What part of speech is day after day?
Day after day is an adverb.

Words near day after day in the dictionary

  1. daxophonists
  2. Daxter
  3. Daxton
  4. day
  5. day after
  6. day after day
  7. day and age
  8. day and night
  9. day at the beach
  10. day beacon
  11. day beacons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day after day (page history and authors); day after day (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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