all day

adj, adv — 5 senses

all-day

adjalso spelled all-day

US /ˌɔlˈdeɪ/ · UK /ˌɔːlˈdeɪ/

Etymology From all- + day.

1

Lasting throughout the whole day.

an all-day event

2

Available throughout the whole day.

all-day breakfast

Related terms: all-dayer, all-night

all day

adv

1

For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.

There hasn't been a breath of wind all day.
So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, They cannot see the sun on high: The wind hath blown a gale all day; At evening it hath died away.1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:

2

Figuratively Easily; handily; in spades; by far.

Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.

3

Cooking, Food, Lifestyle Slang In total.

Table 2 needs three tacos, and Table 4 needs six, so that's nine tacos, all day.

Derived terms: can do this all day
Related terms: as the day is long, daylong, dayslong, for days, livelong

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