days
/ˈdeɪz/
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British/ˈdɛjz/
days is the plural of day.
days is the third-person singular simple present indicative of day.
Noun
days pl (plural only)
- A particular time or period of vague extent.
- Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
- His days of being the king are over.
- Life.
- That's how he ended his days.
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.
Adverb
days (not comparable)
Synonyms of days
Antonyms
Origin of days
From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).
Words formed from days
Phrases with days
- me days
- arm days
- big days
- bin days
- days off
- days out
- dog days
- due days
- fat days
- for days
- fun days
- gym days
187 more phrasesFewer phrases
- hay days
- law days
- lay days
- leg days
- man days
- May Days
- MLK Days
- off days
- old days
- pay days
- ped days
- rag days
- red days
- sea days
- tag days
- Tax Days
- away days
- back days
- cake days
- core days
- flag days
- free days
- game days
- half days
- heat days
- holy days
- hump days
- Lady Days
- leap days
- name days
- neck days
- open days
- post days
- push days
- race days
- rain days
- rest days
- safe days
- show days
- sick days
- skip days
- snow days
- term days
- tide days
- Weed Days
- work days
- Xmas Days
- zero days
- angel days
- Anzac Days
- Baker days
- be on days
- beach days
- black days
- brain days
- chair days
- cheat days
- chest days
- civil days
- class days
- days after
- Days Creek
- ditch days
- doona days
- duvet days
- early days
- Earth days
- Ember days
- feast days
- field days
- glory days
- happy days
- heady days
- INSET days
- Labor Days
- light days
- match days
- mufti days
- natal days
- now a days
- oh my days
- paper days
- poets days
- rainy days
- salad days
- skier days
- solar days
- Sorry Days
- these days
- X'mas Days
- X-mas Days
- access days
- banyan days
- basket days
- boxing days
- bridge days
- button days
- cardio days
- career days
- day of days
- Days of Awe
- degree days
- dollar days
- double days
- golden days
- Gotcha Days
- Julian days
- Labour Days
- lawful days
- Lord's Days
- market days
- ninety days
- pajama days
- poets' days
- return days
- school days
- ship's days
- speech days
- sports days
- ticket days
- Wattle Days
- 24-hour days
- account days
- bad old days
- days gone by
- days of days
- days of rest
- days of yore
- Fathers Days
- garbage days
- halcyon days
- laundry days
- Mothers Days
- muck-up days
- picture days
- Pioneer Days
- polling days
- quarter days
- recycle days
- running days
- saints' days
- Scarlet Days
- stellar days
- trading days
- Twelfth Days
- Victory Days
- washing days
- weather days
- wedding days
- working days
- workout days
- ahemeral days
- bad hair days
- borrowed days
- bridging days
- business days
- calendar days
- contango days
- election days
- Father's Days
- Fathers' Days
- good old days
- judgment days
- judicial days
- Mother's Days
- Mothers' Days
- national days
- personal days
- red flag days
- Rogation Days
- sidereal days
- vacation days
- borrowing days
- canicular days
- Christmas Days
- end one's days
- full-body days
- Groundhog Days
- judgement days
- length of days
- Midsummer Days
- privilege days
- Quitter's Days
- scambling days
- slow news days
- All Fools' Days
- Ancient of Days
Words that rhyme with days
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about days
- What does days mean?
- Days means a particular time or period of vague extent.
- What is days the plural of?
- Days is the plural of day.
- What part of speech is days?
- Days can be a noun or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce days?
- Days is pronounced /ˈdeɪz/.
Words near days in the dictionary
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