days
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Noun
days
- plural 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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
- 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)[1], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
- With Pi’s removal from Honan, Chang lost his backing in the Kuei-te position and was obliged to relinquish it. In the winter we find him in nearby Po-chou, Anhwei, enjoying the hospitality of the magistrate P’ei Chen, who had been a friend since Chang's Peking days.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
- Life.
- That's how he ended his days.
Translations
life
References
Verb
days
- third-person singular simple present indicative of day
Etymology 2
From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).
Adverb
days (not comparable)
Translations
during the day
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
days
- alternative form of deis (“dais”)
Etymology 2
Noun
days
Scots
Noun
days
- plural of day
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dais — dated
Etymology
Borrowed from English dice, from Middle English dys, plural of dy, variant of dee, from Old French dé, from Latin datum, from datus (“given”). Doublet of datos. See also dado.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdajs/ [ˈd̪aɪ̯s]
- Rhymes: -ajs
- Syllabification: days
Noun
days (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔ᜐ᜔)
See also
- beto-beto
Further reading
- “days”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 337