all day

See also: all-day and Allday

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

all day (not comparable)

2. For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.

   Coordinate term: all night

   There hasn't been a breath of wind all day.

   • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock‎^[1]:

     So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
     They cannot see the sun on high:
     The wind hath blown a gale all day;
     At evening it hath died away.

4. (figuratively) Easily; handily; in spades; by far.

   Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.

Derived terms

• can do this all day

Related terms

• as the day is long, daylong, dayslong, for days

Translations

the entire day

• Arabic: طُول اَلْيَوْم (ṭūl al-yawm), طُول اَلنَّهَار (ṭūl an-nahār), كُلّ اَلْيَوْم (kull al-yawm)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 成日 (yue) (seng⁴ jat⁶)

  Mandarin: 終日 / 终日 (zh) (zhōngrì), 全天 (zh) (quántiān), 整天 (zh) (zhěngtiān)

• Dutch: de hele dag
• Esperanto: tuttage
• Finnish: koko päivän
• French: toute la journée
• German: den ganzen Tag
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌰 𐌳𐌰𐌲 (allana dag)
• Greek: όλη (τη) μέρα (óli (ti) méra), όλη την ημέρα (óli tin iméra), (literary): ολημερίς (el) (olimerís)
• Hindi: दिन भर (din bhar), सारे दिन (sāre din)
• Indonesian: seharian (id)
• Japanese: 終日 (ja) (じゅうじつ, jūjitsu), 一日中 (ja) (いちにちじゅう, ichinichijū)
• Kapampangan: patingapun
• Khmer: វាស់ថ្ងៃ (voah tŋay)
• Korean: 하루 종일 (ko) (haru jong'il)
• Latin: diū (la)
• Old English: ealne dæġ
• Polish: cały dzień
• Portuguese: o dia todo
• Romanian: toată ziua
• Russian: це́лый день (célyj denʹ), весь день (vesʹ denʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: fad an latha
• Spanish: todo el día
• Tamil: நாள் முழுக்க (nāḷ muḻukka)
• Turkish: gün boyu
• Ukrainian: весь день (vesʹ denʹ)
• Urdu: سارے دن (sāre din)
• Vietnamese: cả ngày, suốt ngày
• Yakut: бүтүн күн (bütün kün)
• Yiddish: אַ גאַנצן טאָג (a gantsn tog)

See also

• livelong