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Webster 1913 Edition


Diary

Di′a-ry

(dī′ȧ-ry̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Diaries
(#)
.
[L.
diarium
, fr.
dies
day. See
Deity
.]
A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda;
as, a
diary
of the weather; a physician’s
diary
.

Di′a-ry

,
Adj.
lasting for one day;
as, a
diary
fever
.
[Obs.]
Diary ague.”
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Diary

DIARY

,
Noun.
[L., a day.] An account of daily events or transactions; a journal; a register of daily occurrences or observations; as a diary of the weather. A diary fever is a fever of one day.

Definition 2024


diary

diary

English

Noun

diary (plural diaries)

  1. A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
    They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
  2. (Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.
    • 2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework (page 29)
      It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.

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Adjective

diary (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
    • Francis Bacon
      The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

Verb

diary (third-person singular simple present diaries, present participle diarying, simple past and past participle diaried)

  1. (intransitive) To keep a diary or journal.
    • 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking
      As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. 'It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience.'

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