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CIVIL DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does civil day mean?
• CIVIL DAY (noun)
The noun CIVIL DAY has 1 sense:
1. a day reckoned from midnight to midnight
Familiarity information: CIVIL DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A day reckoned from midnight to midnight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
calendar day; civil day
Hypernyms ("civil day" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil day"):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)
day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)
Holonyms ("civil day" is a part of...):
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