CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
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day boarder in CommonParlance
- definition a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
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day book in CommonParlance
- definition the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station
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day by day in CommonParlance
- definition gradually and progressively
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day camp in CommonParlance
- definition a camp providing care and activities for children during the daytime
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day care in CommonParlance
- definition childcare during the day while parents work
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day care center in CommonParlance
- definition a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work
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day game in CommonParlance
- definition a game played in daylight
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day in and day out in CommonParlance
- definition without respite
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day in day out in CommonParlance
- definition for an indefinite number of successive days
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day jessamine in CommonParlance
- definition West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped white flowers that are fragrant by day
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day laborer in CommonParlance
- definition a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
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day labourer in CommonParlance
- definition a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
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day lily in CommonParlance
- definition any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover
- definition any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day
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day nursery in CommonParlance
- definition a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work
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day of reckoning in CommonParlance
- definition (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
- definition an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
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day of remembrance in CommonParlance
- definition the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
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day of rest in CommonParlance
- definition a day set aside for rest
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day of the month in CommonParlance
- definition the specified day of the month
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day of the week in CommonParlance
- definition any one of the seven days in a week
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day off in CommonParlance
- definition a day when you are not required to work
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day return in CommonParlance
- definition a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day
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day school in CommonParlance
- definition a private school taking day students only
- definition a school giving instruction during the daytime
- definition a school building without boarding facilities
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day shift in CommonParlance
- definition the work shift during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
- definition workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
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day watch in CommonParlance
- definition workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
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day-after-day in CommonParlance
- definition of or belonging to or occurring every day