daybook
/ˈdeɪˌbʊk/
daybook noun: a daily chronicle; a diary.
Noun
daybook (plural daybooks)
- A daily chronicle; a diary.
- It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.1992, Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse
- I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.2001, Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit
- An accounting journal.
- Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook."1920, George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice
- Synonyms:
- book of original entry, blotter
- A logbook.
daybook meaning in Telugu and Kannada
daybook in Telugu
- a daybook
- చిట్టా ciṭṭā
daybook in Kannada
- ಊಳಿಗ
Examples of daybook in a sentence
- A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."2001, Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing:
- This is how I use my Daybook: I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead.2003, Jim Burke, The Teacher's Daybook 2003–2004:
Synonyms of daybook
Forms of daybook
| plural | daybooks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | day book |
Origin of daybook
From day + book. First attested in 1571. Cognate with Dutch dagboek (“diary, journal, logbook”), German Tagebuch (“diary, journal, daybook”), Danish dagbog (“diary”), Swedish dagbok (“diary, logbook, journal, daybook”).
Questions about daybook
- What does daybook mean?
- Daybook means a daily chronicle; a diary.
- What is daybook in Telugu?
- Daybook in Telugu is చిట్టా (ciṭṭā). See Daybook meaning in Telugu.
- How do you use daybook in a sentence?
- A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."
- What part of speech is daybook?
- Daybook is a noun.
- How do you pronounce daybook?
- Daybook is pronounced /ˈdeɪˌbʊk/.
- What is the plural of daybook?
- The plural of daybook is daybooks.
Words near daybook in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: daybook (page history and authors); చిట్టా (Telugu) (page history and authors); daybook (Kannada 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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