Entry Word: day

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the hours of light between one night and the next <during the day, we like to go play ball in the park>

Synonyms daylight, daytime

Related Words light, sunlight, sunshine; dawn, dawning, daybreak, morn, morning, sunrise, sunset; dusk, evening, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, twilight

Near Antonyms dark, darkness

Antonyms night, nighttime

2 an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing <the brief but glorious day of the clipper ship> — see age 1