diary
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ə noun, plural di·a·ries.
1.
a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
2.
a book for keeping such a record.
3.
a book or pad containing pages marked and arranged in calendar order, in which to note appointments and the like.
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| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | a personal record of daily events, appointments, observations, etc |
| 2. | a book for keeping such a record |
| [C16: from Latin diārium daily allocation of food or money, journal, from diēs day] | |
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Word Origin & History
diary
1581, from L. diarium, "daily allowance," later "a journal," neut. of diarius "daily," from dies "day." Earliest sense was a daily record of events; sense of the book in which such are written is first attested in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1605).
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Example sentences
Letter-writing and diary-keeping were unusual, especially for commoners.
He thought of writing an online diary of his own but concluded that his life was too boring.
Read from a teenage soldier's diary and a doctor's gruesome accounts of disease, hunger, and cold.
Keeping a diary and trying to keep active was part of the plan.
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