calendar day
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.
Example Sentences
- "Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours."
- "The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule."
- ""[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day.""
- "'[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day."
- "My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar."
- "The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously."