different between years vs days

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ji.?(?)z/, /j??(?)z/

Noun

years

1. plural of year.
   • 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol

     It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.

Noun

years pl (plural only)

1. (colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.

   It took years for the bus to come.

Synonyms

• (unusually long time): ages, yonks, for ever, donkey’s years, donkey’s

Anagrams

• Areys, Ayers, Ayres, Rayes, Reays, Sayer, Sayre, arsey, ayres, eyras, resay, sayer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?z/
• Hyphenation: days
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophone: daze

Etymology 1

From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dag?s, *dag?z, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day +? -s (plural ending).

Noun

days

1. plural of day

Noun

days pl (plural only)

1. A particular time or period of vague extent.
2. Life.

Translations

References

• days on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

days

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of day

Etymology 2

From Middle English daies, from Old English dæ?es (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day +? -s (adverbial ending).

Adverb

days (not comparable)

1. During the day.

   She works days at the garage.

Translations

Anagrams

• YASD, dasy-, sayd, yads

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

days

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Etymology 2

Noun

days

1. plural of day (“day”)

Scots

Noun

days

1. plural of day