dai - What does it mean?
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'dai' is a common misspelling of 'day'
The correct spelling of 'day' ends with the letter 'y'.
This incorrect spelling 'dai' ends with the letter 'i'.
'dai' Spelling Rule
In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.
Definition of 'day' not 'dai'English
Alternative forms
* daie (archaic)
Noun
( en-noun)
Any period of 24 hours.
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A period from midnight to the following midnight.
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(lb) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
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The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
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Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
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|passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams,
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
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*:If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day , at least they did not have less.
A period of contention of a day or less.
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Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day
* all-day
* as the day is long
* calendar day
* Canada Day
* daily
* day after day
* day-after-day
* daybreak
* daydream
* daycare, day care
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* day job
* day laborer
* day letter
* daylight
* daylily
* day-neutral
* day nursery
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* day off
* day of reckoning
* day one
* day return
* day school
* daystar
* daytime
* day to day
* day-to-day
* day trader
* day trip
* day boarder
* day bed
* degree-day
* dollar day
* every dog has its day
* field day
* flag day, Flag Day
* Friday
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* have its day
* have seen one's day
* holiday
* holy day
* judgment day
* latter-day
* Monday
* payday
* present-day
* rainy day
* Saturday
* save the day
* sick day
* Sunday
* Thursday
* tomorrow is another day
* Tuesday
* Victoria day
* Wednesday
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Verb
( en-verb)
(rare) To spend a day (in a place).
* 2008 , Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes , page 233:
- When I nighted and dayed in Damascus town,
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