diary
pronunciation
How to pronounce diary in British English:
UK [ˈdaɪəri]
How to pronounce diary in American English:
US [ˈdaɪəri]
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- Noun:
- a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
- a personal journal (as a physical object)
Word Origin
- diary
- diary: [16] Like its semantic cousin journal, a diary is literally a ‘daily’ record. It comes from Latin diarium, a derivative of diēs ‘day’. Originally in classical Latin the word meant ‘daily allowance of food or pay’, and only subsequently came to be applied to a ‘record of daily events’. From the 17th to the 19th century English also had an adjective diary, from Latin diarius, meaning ‘lasting for one day’.
- diary (n.)
- 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).
Example
- 1. Before we met , you showed me your diary .
- 2. I wrote the words in my diary .
- 3. And she kept a diary .
- 4. He is also reading lord mandelson 's diary .
- 5. Someone suggests to keep an english diary .