diary

From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diarius, from diēs (“a day”). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəɹi/, /ˈdaɪɹi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəri, -aɪɹi

diary (plural diaries)

1. A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

   They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.

   • 2005 January 30, Andrea Baker as Clover and Katie Griffin as Alexandra “Alex”, “Feng Shui Is Like So Passe”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 19, written by Jef Biederman, Teletoon, Marathon Media:

     No, I’m just going over the stuff Tara wrote in my diary.
     She’s writing your diary? Could you be any lazier?

2. (Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.
   • 2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework, page 29:

     It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.

• daybook
• journal

• calendar
• daybook
• chronicle
• log

• diarism
• diarist

• diurnal
• journal

diary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
   • Francis Bacon

     the offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague

diary (third-person singular simple present diaries, present participle diarying, simple past and past participle diaried)

1. (intransitive) To keep a diary or journal.
   • 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking

     As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. 'It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience.'

• diary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• diary at OneLook Dictionary Search

• dairy, yaird