DAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does days mean? 

• DAYS (noun)
  The noun DAYS has 1 sense:

1. the time during which someone's life continues

  Familiarity information: DAYS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time during which someone's life continues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

days; years

Context example:

in his final years

Hypernyms ("days" is a kind of...):

life (the period from the present until death)

 Context examples 

I watched his son all I could for the sake of the old days.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was laid by the heels for ten days, but Trevor used to come in to inquire after me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My wife was on a visit to her mother’s, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She wondered if she had been cold all her days.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now let’s turn to your finances, which will be the focus of the full moon on December 11, strong for plus or minus five days in the sign of Gemini, 20 degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When we came to our journey’s end, the king thought proper to pass a few days at a palace he has near Flanflasnic, a city within eighteen English miles of the seaside.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She rode for days, till they fell in the traces and the sled stood still.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For some days afterwards, I am lost in rapturous reflections; but I neither see her in the street, nor when I call.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)