jour

English

Pronunciation

Noun

jour (plural jours)

  1. (chiefly US) Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.

French

Etymology

From Old French jor, jorn, from Latin diurnum [tempus], from the neuter of the adjective diurnus (of the day), which is cognate with diēs (day). Doublet of diurne, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒuʁ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uʁ

Noun

jour m (plural jours)

  1. day
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
      L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
      The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.
  2. daylight, light
  3. opening, aperture

Derived terms

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Norman

Alternative forms

  • jouo (continental Normandy)
  • djö (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French jor, jorn, from Latin diurnum [tempus], from the neuter of the adjective diurnus (of the day).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

jour m (plural jours)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) day

Derived terms


Occitan

Alternative forms

Noun

jour m (plural jours)

  1. (Mistralian) day

Swedish

Noun

jour c

  1. time when a worker is normally not scheduled to work, but is scheduled to be quickly available if there is a sudden need
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