alday

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adverb

For the whole day; all day.

OriginMiddle English alday →
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Meanings

alday1

adverbalday (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableFor the whole day; all day.
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    To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.

    1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96

Alday2

proper nounAlday (plural Aldays)

plural Aldays

  1. A surname.

Origin

alday · adverb

  1. Middle Englishalday“all day”
  2. Englishalday

Inherited from Middle English alday (“all day”), compound of al + day. Equivalent to all + day.

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Alday · proper noun

  1. BasqueAldai
  2. SpanishAlday
  3. EnglishAlday

Borrowed from Spanish Alday, a Castilianized habitational surname from Basque Aldai.

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APA

alday. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alday

MLA

“alday.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alday. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alday,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alday.

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