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Noun

days

1. plural of day
2. A particular time or period of vague extent.

   Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.

3. Life.

   That's how he ended his days.‎

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Adverb

days ‎(not comparable)

1. During the day.

   She works days at the garage.

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• sayd
• yads

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Noun

days

1. plural of day