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Grammar : Noun
Spell : dahy-uh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaɪ ə ri

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Définition of diary

Origin :
  • 1580s, from Latin diarium "daily allowance," later "a journal," neuter of diarius "daily," from dies "day" (see diurnal); also see -ary. Earliest sense was a daily record of events; sense of the book in which such are written is said to be first attested in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1605).
  • noun recounting of activities in writing
Example sentences :
  • From this point the progress will be best narrated by extracts from my Diary.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • It was a very serious thing for the elements when they got into Aunt Jane's diary.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • On the 9th Nelson sent Collingwood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson-touch.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • Her thoughts went back to what she had written in her diary.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • That page in her diary called out to her to come home and burn it.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • It proved to be a diary kept likewise in thorough German fashion.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • In two hours I was delirious, and the end of the Diary and of myself was at hand.
  • Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski
  • Take, by way of example, an extract from my own diary at Venice.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • His diary was within reach, and he thought over his abbreviated week-end.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
  • No, I'll go after them papers and the diary while they're fresh in my mind.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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