Diary
['daɪərɪ] or ['daɪəri]
Definition
(noun.) a personal journal (as a physical object).
(noun.) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.
Editor: Moll--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
(a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Journal, register, chronicle.
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Definition
n. a daily record: a journal.—adjs. Diā′rial Diā′rian.—v.t. or v.i. Dī′arise.—n. Dī′arist one who keeps a diary.
Editor: Ned
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A daily record of that part of one's life which he can relate to himself without blushing.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
An honest autobiography. A good keepsake, but a bad give-away.
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Examples
- Those were the exact words she used--taken down in my diary the moment I got home. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Have you made any memorandum--in your diary, or otherwise--of what you wanted to say to me? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver, and handed it to his companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- My husband found and kept both diary and letters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My diary informs me, that I was accidentally passing Aunt Verinder's house in Montagu Square, on Monday, 3rd July, 1848. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On the other hand, I have continued to fold my clothes, and to keep my little diary. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To his astonishment he saw the official leaning back in his chair hastily scanning the contents of the little black diary. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The name of the firm is accidentally blotted in my diary, and my sacred regard for truth forbids me to hazard a guess in a matter of this kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was his Diary--in many locked volumes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She is requested to limit herself to her own individual experience of persons and events, as recorded in her diary. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- So would my diary, in which, from day to day, I had entered both my feelings towards him and the view which each of us had taken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Few monarchs have left us intimate diaries; to be a monarch and to be frank are incompatible feats; monarchy is itself necessarily a pose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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