day

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English day

Pronunciation

• dé

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 135
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 110
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2645
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 156

Definition

• Time wey reach 24 hours.

Noun

Time for inside 24 hours when e be sey sun dey shine well-well

1. Template:Abeg now wey day dey make we reach house, before night reach

2. period of time wey start for midnight reach anoder midnight

   After dat day, I get mysef.  — (PRT_07_Drummer_MG__107, Afterwards, I was fine.)

   Airlines dey lose millions per day  — (bbc__13427, __no translation__)

   So any day when school authority don con discover, make dem punish everybody.  — (NST_cleaned__715, __no translation__)

   Since January when dis season start, na evri day somtin dey always trend from di show.  — (bbc__89704, __no translation__)

Derived forms

evriday

1. • Wetin dey happen day by day.

   • Evriday, we dey get new tori of house wey di tin don enta.  — (bbc__1858, __no translation__)
   • Evriday our men dey go around dey look for dis kain girls wey no dey hear word and dey roam about.  — (bbc__2731, __no translation__)

daytime

1. • Time of day wey be sey sun dey shine.

   • E fit be sey na for day time.  — (jw__44169, __no translation__)
   • We fit pray for daytime or for night.  — (jw__8211, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• afternoon

Antonyms

• night

Translations

• English: day