day and night
day and night adverb: all the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
Adverb
day and night (not comparable)
- All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
- Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:1
- We were firing at top speed day and night on counter-battery work, neutralisation, and aeroplane shoots, and all spare men were commandeered to help feed the guns.2012, J.J. Webber, 178 Siege Battery R.G.A.: B.E.F. France: 1916-1918, page 15
Noun
day and night (uncountable)
- Synonym of chalk and cheese (“two things that are very different”).
- Synonyms:
- chalk and cheese
Proper noun capitalized: Day and Night
Day and Night
- A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B3678/S34678.
day and night meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
day and night in Hindi
- all the time
- सुब्ह शाम subha śām, दिन रात din rāt
day and night in Tamil
- all the time
- இரவுபகல் iravupakal, இராப்பகல் irāppakal, ராத்திரியும் பகலும் rāttiriyum pakalum
day and night in Urdu
- all the time
- دِن رات din rāt, صُبْح و شام subh o śām
day and night in Bengali
- all the time
- দিনরাত dinrat, অহর্নিশি ohorniśi, দিবারাত্রি dibaratri
More languagesFewer languages
- day and night in Telugu
- పగలు రాత్రి pagalu rātri
- day and night in Malayalam
- രാപകൽ rāpakal, ദിനരാത്രം dinarātraṁ, അഹോരാത്രം ahōrātraṁ
- day and night in Kannada
- ಇರ್ಪೊತ್ತು, ಇಪ್ಪೊತ್ತು, ಹಗಲಿರುಳು, ಸತತವಾಗಿ
- day and night in Gujarati
- અહોરાત ahorāt
- day and night in Sanskrit
- अहर्निश aharniśa, अहर् áhar
- day and night in Arabic
- لَيْلَ نَهَارَ layla nahāra, صَبَاحَ مَسَاءَ ṣabāḥa masāʔa
- day and night in Persian
- شب و روز šab-o-ruz, روز و شب ruz-o-šab, شبانهروز šabâne-ruz
Synonyms of day and night
Forms of day and night
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Origin of day and night
Named for the fact that the rule is its own complement; toggling all cell states results in the pattern evolving similarly, but with living and dead cells switched.
Questions about day and night
- What does day and night mean?
- Day and night means all the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
- What is day and night in Hindi?
- Day and night in Hindi is सुब्ह शाम (subha śām), दिन रात (din rāt). See Day and night meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is day and night?
- Day and night can be an adverb, a noun or a proper noun.
Words near day and night in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: day and night (page history and authors); Day and Night (page history and authors); day and night (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અહોરાત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अहर् (Sanskrit) (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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