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ADAYS

Definition: ADAYS

ADAYS

Adverb

1. By day, or every day; in the daytime.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ADAYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Note: Adays \A*days"\, adverb. [Prefix a- (for on) day; the final was originally genitive ending, afterwards forming adverbs.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: ADAYS

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Literature

Adays Nowadays, at the present time (or day). So in Latin, Nunc dierum and Nunc temporis. The prefix "a"= at, of, or on. Simularly, anights, of late, on Sundays. All used adverbially. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: ADAYS

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Screenplays

Well he could've had some colored mixed in him the way things are now adays. Yeah, he could've been one of them macaroons. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ADAYS

Derivations

Words ending with "ADAYS": faradays, nowadays, welladays. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ADAYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-s-y"

-1 letter: days.

-2 letters: aas, ads, ays, day, sad, say.

-3 letters: aa, ad, as, ay, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-s-y"
 

+2 letters: assayed, bayards, daresay, daysman, daystar, maydays, paydays, washday.

 

+3 letters: abasedly, alcaydes, analysed, asyndeta, bastardy, daymares, daystars, disarray, drayages, dystaxia, faradays, halyards, haywards, headstay, headways, lanyards, nowadays, paduasoy, payloads, playdays, roadways, sashayed, tanyards, washdays, yardages, yardarms.

 

+4 letters: adversary, advisably, adynamias, amygdales, analysand, ashamedly, ayurvedas, backyards, barnyards, bastardly, bayadeers, bayaderes, boatyards, caryatids, coalyards, cyanamids, dahabiyas, dastardly, daybreaks, daydreams, defrayals, dialysate, disarrays, dyscrasia, dysphagia, dysphasia, dysplasia, dystaxias, fadeaways, farmyards, haulyards, headstays, hideaways, kailyards, kaleyards, ladypalms, paduasoys, paralysed, paygrades, playdates, playlands, saleslady, standaway, upsadaisy, welladays, yardlands, yardwands.

 

+5 letters: amygdalins, analysands, ascendancy, bioassayed, candygrams, caryatides, causewayed, cyanamides, dairymaids, daytraders, dialysates, dialyzates, diaphyseal, diaphysial, disarrayed, dysarthria, dyscrasias, dysphagias, dysphasias, dysplasias, fairylands, graveyards, graybeards, hamadryads, hydrangeas, misassayed, readymades, sandpapery, shandygaff, standardly, swaybacked, twayblades, yardmaster.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ADAYS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 41 59 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    .-    -.--.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01000001 01011001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#65 &#89 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0041 0059 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3538355953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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