What is the name meaning of DAY. Phrases containing DAY
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English
English : occupational name for a dyer, Middle English litster, an agent derivative (originally feminine; compare Baxter) of lit(t)e(n) ‘to dye’ (Old Norse lita). This term was used principally in East Anglia and northern and eastern England (areas of Scandinavian settlement), and to this day the surname is found principally in these regions, especially in Yorkshire.Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Fhleisdeir ‘son of the arrow maker’.
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Portuguese and Galician
Portuguese and Galician : variant of Marta.Italian : probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day.English : variant spelling of Mart 1.German : from a short form of Martin.
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English
English : variant of Dayman, an occupational name for a herdsman or dairyman (see Day). It was also used as a personal name.
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English
English : variant spelling of Day.
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English
English : from Old French jour ‘day’, hence a nickname for a journeyman or day laborer.
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English
English : from the Middle English female personal name Loveday, Old English Lēofdæg, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + dæg ‘day’.English : nickname for someone who had some particular association with a ‘loveday’. According to medieval custom this was a day set aside for the reconciliation of enemies and amicable settlement of disputes.
Male
Hindi/Indian
(दयाराम) Abbreviated form of Hindi Dayarama, DAYARAM means "compassion of Rama."
Girl/Female
English
Day's eye. A flower name.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived in a long valley, from Middle English long + botme, bothem ‘valley bottom’. Given the surname’s present-day distribution, Longbottom in Luddenden Foot, West Yorkshire, may be the origin, but there are also two places called Long Bottom in Hampshire, two in Wiltshire, and Longbottom Farm in Somerset and in Wiltshire.
Girl/Female
Australian, Christian
Sunshine; Bright; Day
Boy/Male
English American
Day town; light town.
Female
English
 English name derived from the vocabulary word, DAY means "day." Feminine form of Middle English Daye, meaning "day."
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English
English : from a pet form of David.English : from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey(e), Old English Dæi, apparently from Old English dæg ‘day’, perhaps a short form of Old English personal names such as Dægberht and Dægmund. Reaney, however, points to the Middle English word day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, ‘(female) servant’ (from Old English dǣge, cognate with Old Norse deigja ‘female servant’, ultimately from a root meaning ‘to knead’, and related to the word for dough), which he says came to be used for a servant of either sex.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O’Dea).Scottish : from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Daìdh, a colloquial form of David.Welsh : from Dai, a pet form of the personal name Dafydd, Welsh form of David.This name was brought independently from many parts of Britain to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Robert Day was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English
English : from a pet form of Day.
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English
English : unexplained; possibly of French origin (see 2). Compare Jurney.Anglicized spelling of French Journet or Journée, from Old French jornee, a measure of land representing an area that could be ploughed in a day; hence a name for someone who owned or worked such an area.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English
Eye of the Day; Day's Eye
Female
English
Variant spelling of Hebrew Dana, possibly DAYNA means "judge."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, probably named in Old English as ‘enclosed wood’, from loc(a) ‘enclosure’ (see Lock) + wudu ‘wood’. It seems likely that all present-day bearers of the name descend from a single family which originated in this place. There is another place of the same name in Cleveland, first recorded in 1273 as Locwyt, from Old English loc(a) + Old Norse viðr ‘wood’, ‘brake’, but it is not clear whether it has given rise to a surname.
Female
African
joy arrives.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, possibly originally a nickname for Anglo-Saxon names containing the element d�g, DAYE means "day," such as Dægberht and Dægmund.
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a.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
n. pl.
The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
n.
One given to daydreams.
prep.
On this day; on the present day.
n.
The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
n.
A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
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The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
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The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
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The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
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(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
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The sun, as the orb of day.
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Labor hired or performed by the day.
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The present day.
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One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.
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The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
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A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.