term day

American  

noun

1. a fixed or appointed day, as for the payment of money due; a quarter day.

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Etymology

Origin of term day

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

Example Sentences

The term "day" is used to cover the hours of active, waking life, from breakfast to bedtime.

From The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Goodrich-Freer, A.

And driving to Ocock's office, on term day, he resolved to go on afterwards to the Bank of Australasia and there deposit this sum.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

On April 16 Kennedy had a term day.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

Hence a part of a day or night would be counted as a whole day, the term day obviously having two senses, as night and day, or day contrasted with night.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas

As regards the term "day," it is surely a rule of sound criticism never to give an "extraordinary" meaning to a word, when the "ordinary" one will give good and intelligible sense to a passage.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry