Day Definition
- festival
- celebration
- holiday
- mean-solar-day
- solar-day
- 24-hour interval
- twenty-four hour period
- twenty-four hours
- daylight
- daytime
- sidereal day
- Clarence Day
- Clarence Shepard Day Jr.
- period
- era
An English surname from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer. ,or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.
An Irish surname anglicised from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).
- For many days; continuously.
- Every day without fail; continuously.
- Someday.
- Someday.
- A difficult or trying day.
Origin of Day
This surname has multiple origins. Besides the ones listed below, Norman origin has also been suggested from De Haie", or "a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy".
From Wiktionary
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Middle English dai, day from Old English dæg agh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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