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diurnal

UK/daɪˈɜːnəl//daɪˈɝ.nəl/

diurnal adjective: happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.

Adjective

diurnal (not comparable)

  1. Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
    • Most birds are diurnal.
    • However, in general, lizards are more diurnal than rattlers, which may be one of the reasons why young rattlers are more diurnal than adults.1972, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Volume 1
  2. Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
  3. Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
    Synonyms:
    circadian
  4. (uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
  5. (archaic) Published daily.

Noun

diurnal (plural diurnals)

  1. A flower that opens only in the day.
  2. A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
  3. (archaic) A diary or journal.
    • He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
  4. (archaic) A daily news publication.

diurnal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

diurnal in Hindi

diurnal
दैन dain

diurnal in Tamil

தினசரி பகற்கால மாற்றம், நாள்முறை, அன்றாட, பகலில், பகலில் நிகழும், பகல்

diurnal in Urdu

diurnal
دین dain

diurnal in Bengali

diurnal
দৈনিক dōinik
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diurnal in Malayalam
ദിവസവുമുള്ള, ദിവസന്തോറുമുള്ള, ദെെനന്ദിനമുള്ള, ആന്വാഹിക
diurnal in Kannada
ದೈನಂದಿನ, ಪ್ರತಿದಿನದ, ದೈನಿಕ, ಹಗಲು ಹೊತ್ತಿನ
diurnal in Arabic
نَهَارِيّ nahāriyy
diurnal in Persian
روزانه ruzâne, روزی یک بار ruzi yek bâr

Examples of diurnal in a sentence

  • Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.
  • These sounds Darley interprets as Memnon’s yearning matin song to his mother Aurora, generative and diurnal originatrix.
  • This pattern of EEG and respiratory changes has been observed during both diurnal and nocturnal sleep in Pickwickian patients.

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Forms of diurnal

pluraldiurnals

Origin of diurnal

From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.

Words formed from diurnal

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Questions about diurnal

What does diurnal mean?
Diurnal means happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
What is diurnal in Hindi?
Diurnal in Hindi is दैन (dain). See Diurnal meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is diurnal?
Diurnal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce diurnal?
Diurnal is pronounced /daɪˈɜːnəl/ (UK).

Words near diurnal in the dictionary

  1. diuretically
  2. diuretick
  3. diureticks
  4. diuretics
  5. diuretin
  6. diurnal
  7. diurnal aberration
  8. diurnal aberrations
  9. diurnal active photolocation
  10. diurnal arc
  11. diurnal arcs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diurnal (page history and authors); दैन (Hindi) (page history and authors); diurnal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دین (Urdu) (page history and authors); দৈনিক (Bengali) (page history and authors); diurnal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); diurnal (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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