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days

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day +‎ -s (plural ending).

Noun

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days

  1. plural of day

Noun

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days pl (plural only)

  1. A particular time or period of vague extent.
    Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
    His days of being the king are over.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)‎[1], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
      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.
    • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      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.
  2. Life.
    That's how he ended his days.
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Verb

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days

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of day

Etymology 2

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From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day +‎ -s (adverbial ending).

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days (not comparable)

  1. During the day.
    She works days at the garage.
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Etymology 1

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days

  1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Etymology 2

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days

  1. plural of day (“day”)

Scots

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Noun

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days

  1. plural of day
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