English

Noun

jour ‎(plural jours)

1. Chiefly U.S.: An abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒuʁ/

Etymology

From Old French jor, jorn, from Latin diurnum [tempus], from the neuter of the adjective diurnus ‎(“of the day”), which is cognate with diēs ‎(“day”). Doublet of diurne, a borrowing.

Noun

jour m ‎(plural jours)

1. day
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:

     L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.

     The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

2. daylight, light
3. opening, aperture

Related terms

• journée

Norman

Alternative forms

• jouo (continental Normandy)
• djö (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French jor, jorn, from Latin diurnum [tempus], from the neuter of the adjective diurnus ‎(“of the day”).

Pronunciation

Noun

jour m ‎(plural jours)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) day

Derived terms

Related terms

• journée (Jersey), journaïe (Guernsey)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• jorn (Classical)

Noun

jour m (plural jours)

1. (Mistralian) day