Days
nounMore than one day; periods of twenty-four hours.
How to spell days
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce days
What does days mean?
- nounMore than one day; periods of twenty-four hours.
Days in a sentence
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The parcel should arrive within three days.
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She took two days off work to move house.
Where does days come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This is simply the plural of 'day', which descends from the Old English 'dæg', a native Germanic word for the period of daylight and, more broadly, the twenty-four hour span. It has close relatives across the Germanic family, such as German 'Tag' and Dutch 'dag', all going back to a shared ancestor meaning the time of light between two nights. The plural was formed in the ordinary English way by adding an -s, and unlike many irregular Old English nouns it settled into this regular pattern early. The spelling trap is not the plural ending but the homophone 'daze', meaning a state of confusion, which sounds identical but is unrelated and comes from an Old Norse word for weariness. Because 'day' keeps its base spelling intact before the -s, there is no -ies change as there would be after a consonant plus y.
How the word is built
- day (from Old English dæg)
- -s (plural marker)
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