daye
Syllables: Da·ye
daye is the alternative form of dhye.
daye is the archaic spelling of day.
Meaning of dhye
Noun
dhye (plural dhyes)
- A wet-nurse.
Meaning of day
Noun
day (plural days)
- The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
- day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
- Synonyms:
- daylight, daylength, daytime, photoperiod
- Antonyms:
- night, nightertale, nighttide, nighttime, scotoperiod, skotoperiod
- A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
- Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
- Synonyms:
- twenty-four hour day, 24-hour day, nychthemeron
- The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
- A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
- A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
- The day begins at midnight.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Daye
Daye (plural Dayes)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Daye
Daye
- A county-level city of Huangshi, Hubei, China.
- Vuchang commands over ten Cities, as Vuhang, Vuchang, Kiayu, Puki, Hienning, Cungyang, Tungching, Hingque, Taye, Tungxan.[1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of...
- The outbreak in Daye, a city of more than 900,000 people, was confirmed as a case of the H5N6 strain of the virus, the ministry said in the statement on its website.2017 March 14, Hallie Gu, Josephine Mason, “China's confirms sixth bird flu outbreak at duck farm in Hubei province”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Mar...
Forms of daye
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dayes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Dayes |
| alternative form | Tayeh |
| alternative form | Ta-yeh |
Origin of daye
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大冶 (Dàyě).
Words formed from daye
Questions about daye
- What does daye mean?
- Daye means a surname.
- What is daye the alternative form of?
- Daye is the alternative form of dhye.
- What part of speech is daye?
- Daye is a proper noun.
Words near daye in the dictionary
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