days en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈdɛjz/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- /ˈdeɪz/
Etymology
From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) A particular time or period of vague extent.
His days of being the king are over.
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.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
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.
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848: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.
1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801), Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 100–101: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.
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:
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(form-of, plural) plural of day
form of day
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(plural, plural-only) Life.
That's how he ended his days.
Deriveds
Translations (9)
de Tage (life) · da dage (life) · pt vida (life) · ar أَيَّام (life) · ml ദിവസങ്ങൾ (life) · ro zile (life) · ru дни (life) · nb dager (life) · pt dia-a-dia (life)