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Definition: Diary |
DiaryNoun1. A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations. 2. A personal journal (as a physical object). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "diary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Diary \Di"a*ry\, noun; plural Diaries. [Latin diarium, from dies day. See Deity.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | An honest autobiography. A good keepsake, but a bad give- away. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Language | Document recording the day-to-day life of the author. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | All household budget surveys in the Community contain a diary component in which households record all items of daily consumption and/or expenditure. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 - March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. Her family was betrayed and they were transported to a Nazi concentration camp, where she died. After the war, her diary was published, making her world-famous.She was born Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 - August 19, 1980) and his wife Edith Hollander (January 16, 1900 - January 6, 1945). She had an older sister, Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 - March 1945). She and her family later had to move to Amsterdam to escape persecution by the Nazis. When she was barely 13 years old her family went into hiding in the Achterhuis, a small two-story space behind Otto Frank's company space. The door to the Achterhuis was hidden behind a bookcase. They lived there from July 9, 1942 until August 4, 1944, during the Nazi occupation. There were 8 people in the hiding place: Otto and Edith Frank (Anne's parents); Anne's older sister Margot; Mr. Dussel, a Jewish dentist (real name, Fritz Pfeffer); and Mr. and Mrs. van Daan with their son Peter (real last name, van Pels). During those years Anne wrote her diary, describing with considerable talent her fears of living in hiding for years, the awakening feelings for Peter, the conflicts with her parents, and her aspirations to become a writer.
After more than two years, a tip from a Dutch informer led the Gestapo to their hiding place. They were arrested by the Grüne Polizei and on September 2, 1944 Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrived three days later. Meanwhile Miep Gies and Elly Vossen, two of the people who cared for them during the hiding years, found the diary and saved it.
Anne, Margot and Edith Frank, the van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer did not survive the German concentration camps. Margot and Anne spent a month in Auschwitz-Birkenau and were sent on to Bergen-Belsen, where they died of typhus in March 1945, shortly before the liberation. Only Anne's father Otto made it out of the concentration camps alive. Miep gave him the diary and he edited it for publication under the title The Diary of Anne Frank. It has since been published in 55 languages.
A recent critical edition of the diary compares her original entries with her father's edited versions.
The house where Anne and her family hid is now a museum. It is at Prinsengracht 263 in the city center, within walking distance of the main train station, the palace and the Dam.
In 1956 Frank's diary was made into a play that won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1959 it was made into a motion picture; see: The Diary of Anne Frank (film), in 1997 it was made into a Broadway play with added material from the original diaries.
Further reading
- Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, translated by B. M. Mooyaart, Bantam, mass market paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 0553296981
- The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, Anne Frank, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, compiled by H. J. J. Hardy, revised and updated edition, Doubleday 2003, hardcover, 736 pages, ISBN 0385508476. Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Compares several editions of the diary to the original, includes an extensive study of its authenticity, relates history of the involved people before and after the war.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anne Frank."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A diary is a book for fragmentary writings arranged by date. It can be used for recording in advance appointments and other planned activities, and/or for reporting about what has happened. Diaries have evolved from business notations, to listings of weather and daily personal events, through to inner exploration of the psyche, or a place to express one's deepest self. Some people use the words diary and journal interchangeably, others apply strict differences to journals, diaries and journaling - dated, undated, inner focused, outer focused, forced etc. Some diarists think of their diaries as a special friend, even going so far as to name it. For example, Anne Frank called her diary "Kitty".The word diary comes from the Latin word diarium ("daily allowance", from dies, "day" - more often in the plural form diaria). The word "journal" comes from the same root (diurnus = of the day) through "journey".
Sales of "page a day" diaries go back hundreds of years (Letts, for example, is over 200 years old). At first, most of these books were used as ledgers, or business books. Samuel Pepys is the earliest diarist that is well known today, although he had contemporaries who were also keeping diaries. (John Evelyn for one.) Pepys also was apparently at a turning point in diary history, for he took it beyond mere business transaction notation, into the realm of the personal.
The oldest diaries we have come from Oriental cultures. Pillowbooks of Japanese Court Ladies and Asian travel journals, being some of the oldest surviving specimens of this genre of writing. It does seem that around the turn of the last century, diary writing was for the rich or well off. Most literary figures from that time seem to have kept a diary. (see list below)
In the 1960s Tristine Rainer wrote a book called The New Diary. It was revolutionary in expanding our awareness of diary keeping as a literary genre. In it she identified techniques that people either use spontaneously or have employed in their daily writing to explore themselves and their experience of the world in which they live. The idea, as expressed with the title, being that a diary doesn't have to be a dry recording of weather or daily events.
In the 1980s and 1990s diaries, or journals, have become fertile ground for therapy. Many books have been published about how to write a diary (for self awareness, for finding your true self, for healing from any number of personal troubles). An entire culture has evolved around the practice of journaling. There are many techniques to be attempted. (Many of these techniques enjoyed their first mention in Tristine Rainer's book.)
One of the most tempting things about diaries is that writing one is accessible to anyone with a pen and paper. No education is needed. One doesn't need to know how to spell or use grammar. Writing a diary is something some people are driven to do, often as a way to put their existence into perspective. Too often diaries are perceived to be written only by teenage girls. The onslaught of diaries sold in "cute" colors with locks and keys helped this illusion. (Not sure when those became popular - 1940s or 1950s.) Nowadays, many people prefer the word "journal" so as to avoid this common misconception.
In the years since access to the internet became commonly available, many online diary communities have appeared. Some are personal web logs, also known as blogs. Some communities are small and merely offer a place to store your diary online in a private space, while others have become true communities offering opportunity for feedback and communication with your fellow diarists. Many of the people using these online communities are teenage girls and young people, who perhaps see them as a way to keep their inner thoughts secret from their families, while expressing and exploring their feelings and the experience of growing up. Other people choose to start up a diary in their own private webspace, and to maintain either a public or private record of their lives.
More than 16,000 diaries have been published since book publishing began. See List of diarists.
The diary is a popular form for works of fiction. See List of fictional diaries.
Some websites allow one to create an "online diary" - these include:
See also:
- Diaryland
- LiveJournal
- art journals
- journaling
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diary."
Synonym: DiarySynonym: journal (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram. |
Record | Gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty cashbook; professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Diary |
| English words defined with "diary": dairyman, Diarian, Diaries, diarist, diary keeper ♦ journalist, Journalize ♦ Noctuary ♦ show. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "diary": B. of B. K ♦ Chattelin's, consumer nondurable goods ♦ expendable goods ♦ Groupwise ♦ Hallam's Greek, HOLTER SCANNING TECHNICIAN, holter technicia, Huntingdon Sturgeon ♦ Moots, Morma ♦ non-durable goods, nutrition educator ♦ PDAs, perishable goods, personal digital assistants ♦ WEIGHT-REDUCTION SPECIALIST, Whole Duty of Man. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "diary": Ephemeris. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I read her diary. (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) All I've been doing is reading this diary wondering how the hell I'm still alive (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff) I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real (Nowhere Man; writing credit: David E. Peckinpah; Richard Jefferies) We don't need the diary, Dad (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman) I only got to know my daughter really through the diary. (Anne Frank Remembered; writing credit: Jon Blair; Anne Frank) | |
Lyrics | Her diary it sits on the bedside table ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Diary of a Racehorse (1974) The Tragic Diary of Zero the Fool (1969) David Holzman's Diary (1967) Diary of a Swinger (1967) The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) | |
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 | Kenneth Grimes, NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno County, CA, works with limited resource farmers, diary and range. Currently Grimes is assisting Hmoung farmers in the Fresno, CA, area with education, fertility, water and pesticide management. [Slide 97CS. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Wendy Zwalley, NRCS, Soil Conservationist, Barbra Taylor, Taylor-Whey Diary Farm and Mark Flaharty, Chesapeake Bay Coordinator, York County (PA.) Conservation District inspect Taylors' alfalfa crop. Credit: USDA. |
 | Sheet from Davenport's annotated diary, covering the Summer of 1867, when he was on board USS Dale (1840-1921) for the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen's cruise. It also features a picture of Dale and a hand-written description of the ship and the cruise. Credit: NAVY. |  | Dizzy's diary. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | TB - AIDS Diary / by Linda Troeller. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Diary of a child 2" by Kelsie Brown Commentary: "Taken july 5." | "Schoolwork." by Slivester Chua Commentary: "It was the school IQ mathematics worksheet on the top and the school student's activity diary on the bottom. The background was a dark grey table." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. |
| I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Keep a food diary. (references) | |
Keep a sodium diary. (references) | ||
A diary that records voiding times is usually helpful in keeping track of progress. (references) | ||
Business | The diary industry includes milk beverages, deserts, cheese and butter sectors. (references) | |
The manager of the construction must include information on the construction process in his construction diary, which is an official document. (references) | ||
Trade | Honduras | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides credit guarantees for a wide range of agricultural and products exported from the United States, as well as export bonuses for selected products under the Export Enhancement Program and the Diary Export Incentive Program. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are told that on his body was found a diary. |
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| "Diary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Diary" is used about 2,010 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.95% | 2,009 | 4,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,010 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "diary": diary keeper ♦ diary of a trip ♦ digital diary ♦ engagements diary ♦ intensive diary ♦ keep a diary ♦ pocket diary ♦ write on diary keeper. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "diary": diary-cum-commonplace, diary-keeper, diary-keeping, diary-like, diary-notebook, diary-type. | |
Ending with "diary": desk-diary, off-diary, pocket-diary, thought-diary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
diary | 1,901 | diary new social york | 86 |
online diary | 796 | diary in lyrics this | 83 |
diary free open | 664 | basketball diary | 82 |
princess diary | 506 | diary of a mad black woman | 74 |
diary open teen | 360 | capeside diary | 71 |
bridget jones diary | 340 | digital diary | 70 |
free online diary | 327 | stone diary | 69 |
diary of anne frank | 291 | diary lyndsay | 69 |
open diary | 288 | personal diary | 66 |
red shoes diary | 281 | diary online journal | 65 |
diary in this | 221 | diary x | 64 |
food diary | 152 | ellen rimbauer diary | 64 |
the turner diary | 130 | bridget jones diary soundtrack | 61 |
sakura diary | 129 | diary queen | 58 |
bloop diary | 127 | journal diary | 56 |
dear diary | 127 | diary of dream | 54 |
bridget joness diary | 111 | diary template x | 53 |
free diary | 108 | teen diary | 53 |
nanny diary | 94 | ataris diary in this | 52 |
ataris diary in lyrics this | 89 | sex diary | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "diary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ditar (daybook, journal). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاحظات (annotation), جريدة (daily, newspaper, organ, paper, rag), دفتر لتدوين الملاحظات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тефтерче с календар, дневник (classbook, daybook, journal, register). (various references) | |
Chinese | 日記 , 日志 (Diaries, log). (various references) | |
Czech | diář (notebook), deník (daily, daily newspaper, journal), zápisník (block, notebook, pocket book, pocketbook), kalendář (almanac, calendar). (various references) | |
Danish | dagbog. (various references) | |
Dutch | dagboek (day book, events file, journal, log book), journaal (day book, journal, logbook, ship's log). (various references) | |
Esperanto | taglibro. (various references) | |
Farsi | دفترخاطرات روزانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | päiväkirja (daybook, journal, register). (various references) | |
French | journal, agenda. (various references) | |
Frisian | deiboek. (various references) | |
German | Tagebuch (daybook, journal), Terminkalender (appointment book, appointment calendar, engagements diary), Notizbuch (agenda, appointment book, notebook, note-book, pocketbook, tickler). (various references) | |
Greek | ημερολόγιο (almanac, calendar, journal, log book). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ditar. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יומן (daybook). (various references) | |
Hungarian | osztálynapló (class register), naptár (almanac, calendar, runic staff), napló (blotter, journal, log). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buku harian. (various references) | |
Italian | diario (journal), agenda (agenda, daybook, personal organizer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 日誌 , 日記 (journal), 日記帳 , 日記 (journal), タ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "tsu", Dahl, dark, dark matter, darling, Darwin, diagram, dial, dialogue, dial-up, diatonic, diet, digest, Dijkstra, Diner's Club, diode, dozen, DynaBook, dynamic, dynamics, dynamism, dynamite, necktie, tie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダイアリー , にっきちょう, にっし (days), にっき (journal). (various references) | |
Korean | 일기 (Diaries). (various references) | |
Manx | lioar laa (journal), jeelane (delaine). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dagbok (journal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iaryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diário (daily, daily newspaper, day in day out, day-book, day-by-day, diurnal, everyday, newspaper, quotidian, workaday), agenda (agenda, appointment book, notebook, timetable). (various references) | |
Romanian | jurnal intim (journal), jurnal de zi, jurnal (dailies, Gazette, journal, sheet). (various references) | |
Russian | дневник (daybook, diaries, diary book, journal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dnevnik (daybook, journal, note book, notebook). (various references) | |
Spanish | agenda (agenda, appointment book), diario (agenda, daily, daybook, everyday, journal, newspaper, paper, per diem, quotidian). (various references) | |
Swedish | dagbok (daybook, journal, log-book). (various references) | |
Turkish | hatıra defteri (daybook), günlük (casually, daily, day to day, daybook, diurnal, everyday, frankincense, fresh, journal, of every day, per diem, quotidian, workaday), ajanda. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gьndelik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щоденник (day-book, diurnal, journal), записна книжка-календар. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sổ nhật ký lịch ghi nhớ. (various references) | |
Welsh | dyddlyfr (journal), dyddiadur (journal). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commentarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "diary": incendiary, intermediary, presidiary, stipendiary, subsidiary. (additional references) | |
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"Diary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adhikary, Adikari, aiary, dagry, daiary, dair, dairn, dairty, dairye, darry, dary, daury, deari, Dedari, deery, deiry, devry, Dhari, Diar, diaried, diarn, diarys, diaty, dibry, Dieric, diery, dinary, dira, dirdy, dirsy, dirvy, diry, disarry, Diur, Dixarit, doiry, duar, Dubarry, Dusary, dyar, iday, Idayu, Idhari, tairy, triaryl, Vivary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diary" (pronounced dī"erē or dī"rē) |
| 3 | -ī" er ē | fiery, friary, priory. |
| 3 | -ī" r ē | expiry, inquiry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dairy, yaird. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-r-y" | |
-1 letter: airy, arid, dray, raid, yard, yird. | |
-2 letters: aid, air, day, dry, rad, ray, ria, rid, rya, yar, yid. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, ay, id, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aridly, hydria, myriad, yairds. | |
+2 letters: acridly, aridity, diarchy, dietary, draying, dryadic, dysuria, hardily, hayride, hydriae, jaybird, lairdly, midyear, myriads, pyralid, pyramid, rabidly, rapidly, readily, satyrid, tardily, yarding. | |
+3 letters: acridity, additory, adroitly, advisory, auditory, banditry, birthday, bridally, caryatid, cityward, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, daringly, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, dilatory, disarray, draftily, dreamily, drearily, driveway, dyarchic, dysurias, gravidly, gyroidal, hayrides, hydracid, hyracoid, idolatry, intraday, inwardly, jaybirds, kailyard, ladybird, lampyrid, lapidary, midyears, misandry, myriapod, nondairy, ordinary, podiatry, pyralids, pyramids, pyranoid, rabidity, radially, radiancy, rancidly, rapidity, readying, ribaldly, ribaldry, satyrids, shipyard, solidary, tawdrily, tiltyard, variedly, vineyard, willyard, wizardly, wizardry, yardbird. | |
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