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day

noun

1 the festival lasts five days:

twenty-four-hour period, full day, twenty-four hours, working day;

technical solar day, sidereal day.

2 you could gamble at night and enjoy the beaches during the day:

daytime, daylight, daylight hours, hours of light, hours of sunlight, broad daylight, waking hours, the waking day.

▷antonyms night.

3 he was the leading architect of the day:

period, time, point in time, age, era, epoch, generation.

4 in his day he exercised tremendous influence:

heyday, prime, hour, time, best days, best years, maturity;

peak, pinnacle, height, zenith, ascendancy;

youth, vigor, springtime, salad days, full flowering, bloom.

▷antonyms decline, nadir.

□ at the end of the dayBritish, informal

at the end of the day it is the judge's decision:

ultimately, eventually, in the end, in the long run, at length, finally, sooner or later, in time, in the fullness of time, after some time, in the final analysis, when all is said and done, one day, someday, sometime, at last, at long last;

informal when push comes to shove.

□ call it a dayinformal

at five o'clock I decided to call it a day:

admit defeat, concede defeat, stop trying, give up, give in, surrender, capitulate, be beaten;

despair, lose heart, abandon hope, give up hope;

informal throw in the towel/sponge;

Australian, informal drop one's bundle.

□ day after day

day after day, we learn of new allegations:

repeatedly, again and again, over and over (again), time and (time) again, frequently, often, many times, many a time, time after time, on many occasions, many times over;

year in, year out, week in, week out, day in, day out, night and day, all the time;

persistently, recurrently, constantly, continuously, without a break, ceaselessly, relentlessly, continually, regularly, habitually, unfailingly, always;

North American oftentimes;

Latin ad nauseam;

informal 24/7;

literary many a time and oft, oft, ofttimes.

□ day by day

1 day by day they were being forced to retreat:

gradually, bit by bit, by degrees, by stages, inchmeal, inch by inch, little by little, step by step, slowly, slowly but surely, steadily, progressively.

▷antonyms all at once.

2 the sort of life they led day by day in their homes:

daily, every day, day after day, a day at a time;

rare diurnally.

□ day in, day out

they mechanically pursue the same routine, day in, day out:

repeatedly, again and again, over and over (again), time and (time) again, frequently, often, many times, many a time, time after time, day after day, on many occasions, many times over;

year in, year out, week in, week out, night and day, all the time;

persistently, recurrently, constantly, continuously, without a break, ceaselessly, relentlessly, continually, regularly, habitually, unfailingly, always;

North American oftentimes;

Latin ad nauseam;

informal 24/7;

literary many a time and oft, oft, ofttimes.

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diurnal relating to the day