Days
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdeɪz/
- Rhymes: -eɪz
- Homophones: daze
Noun
plural
- Plural of day
- A particular time or period of vague extent.Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 1, 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.
- 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 1, 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.
- 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, 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.
- Life.That's how he ended his days.