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Definitions of day:

part of speech: noun

The time of light: the time from morning till night: twenty- four hours, the time the earth takes to make a revolution on her axis; also credit: a distant day being fixed for payment.

part of speech: noun

The period of light between sunrise and sunset; daylight; sunshine; the period of twenty- four hours, reckoning from midnight to midnight ( the civil day), or from noon to noon ( the astronomical day); in the east, a distance that can be traveled in twenty- four hours; a specified time or period; as, the day of chivalry; the number of hours allowed by law or custom for work; as, printers work an eight- hour day.

Usage examples for day:

• I'll tell you about her some day soon, perhaps. "The Golden Silence", C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

• I'll ask him to- day "Love and Lucy", Maurice Henry Hewlett

• He is not very well to- day "Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles", Mrs. Henry Wood

• Oh, do let us do something jolly to- day "Jill's Red Bag", Amy Le Feuvre