days

noun

Definition of daysnext
plural of day
1
as in daytimes
the hours of light between one night and the next during the day, we like to go play ball in the park

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2
as in times
an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing the brief but glorious day of the clipper ship

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3
as in mornings
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance at the break of day I was relieved to realize that I had survived another night in the wilderness

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Recent Examples of days Its deployment has included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days. — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026 Al Sharaa reached an agreement with Moscow just days ago over two key Russian outposts in Syria; the Mediterranean coastal bases will be transferred to Syrian control. — Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 Twelve days later, he was promoted from head coach to manager. — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026 In September 2025, Kotb beamed from ear to ear on Haley Joy and Hope’s first days of third and first grade, respectively. — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026 North of the border, in British Columbia, hundreds more homes were lost this week, and 15,000 people are currently under evacuation, with extreme fire weather conditions predicted to worsen in the coming days. — John Vaillant, Time, 8 Aug. 2026 The Wings will have played six games in 12 days, but Fernandez wouldn’t use that as an excuse for his team. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for days
  1. evenings
  2. times
  3. mornings
  4. ages
  5. sunrises
  6. periods
  7. dawns
  8. eras
Noun
  • Vivo, by the pool, is much more relaxed for breakfast, smoothies, iced coffee, gazpacho, or clams for lunch, and live music in the evenings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The right organization can help create smoother mornings, easier evenings, and spaces that are simpler to maintain throughout the school year.
    — Laura VanSickle, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of evenings
Noun
  • Titan’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere is four times denser than Earth’s, allowing the car-sized Dragonfly drone’s eight rotors to easily fly between promising landing sites every Titan day (16 Earth days) to collect and study samples.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Only Middlesbrough made their regains higher upfield, on average, and Coventry caught opponents offside 136 times last campaign — the most since Barnsley (144) and Bournemouth (143) four seasons ago.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of times
Noun
  • Savor quiet mornings on the dock, then head out on a boat to glide beneath the pines.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026
  • What went down Dickens shared a video of himself surprising the Nature Gurlz, a beloved group of women who meet up weekday mornings to bask in the great outdoors.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of mornings
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  • The emphasis on age-appropriate products could explain the mixed reaction to Shay Mitchell’s Rini, a skin care line developed for kids ages 4 and up, which launched with sheet masks.
    — Faye Brookman, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In 2024, women ages 40 and older had the highest rate of gestational hypertension among the age groups studied, according to the new report.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of ages
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  • Later winter sunrises could make morning prayers more difficult, particularly in parts of the Midwest and Mountain West.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Shot on location in Alberta, Canada, the blooming grasslands, breathtaking sunrises, glistening rivers and immense mountaintops are characters in their own right, often pulling audiences in when the storyline itself is drastically lacking.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of sunrises
Noun
  • Indeed, the broad backlash against Flock has grown so strong that the surveillance company last week announced mandatory new audit controls and lower default data retention periods for US users.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The two signals were observed together during flaring periods, while LHAASO detected no corresponding signal when the GeV emission became quiet.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of periods
Noun
  • Morning dawns gray and dismal, but the rain has almost ended.
    — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
    — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of dawns
Noun
  • English football clubs have experienced eras under the control of local businessmen turned millionaires.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As immigrant Catholics were being demonized, echoing previous eras of American history, too many Catholics sided with the demonizers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of eras

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