days

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: days
• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: daze

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

1. plural of day

Noun

days pl (plural only)

1. 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.

2. Life.

   That's how he ended his days.

Translations

life

• Arabic: أَيَّام pl (ʔayyām)
• Danish: dage c pl
• German: Tage (de) m pl
• Malayalam: ദിവസങ്ങൾ (divasaṅṅaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dager (no) pl

• Portuguese: vida (pt) f, dia-a-dia (pt) m
• Romanian: zile (ro) f
• Russian: дни (ru) (dni)

References

• days on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

days

1. 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)

1. During the day.

   She works days at the garage.

Translations

during the day

• Danish: om dagen
• German: tagsüber (de), tags (de), am Tag
• Hungarian: nappal (hu)
• Romanian: ziua (ro)
• Turkish: gündüzleri (tr), gündüzleyin, sabahları (tr), sabahleyin (tr)

Anagrams

• YASD, dasy-, sayd, yads

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

days

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Etymology 2

Noun

days

1. plural of day (“day”)

Scots

Noun

days

1. 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)

1. dice (die)

   Synonyms: dado, (obsolete) sagam

2. a game of dice

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