Definitions for diurnal

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diurnal di·ur·nal

Spelling: [dahy-ur-nl]

IPA: /daɪˈɜr nl/

Diurnal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in diurnal (adilnru).

Definitions for diurnal

noun

1. Liturgy. a service book containing offices for the daily hours of prayer.
2. Archaic. a diary.
3. Archaic. a newspaper, especially a daily one.

adjective

1. of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
2. of or belonging to the daytime (opposed to nocturnal).
3. Botany. showing a periodic alteration of condition with day and night, as certain flowers that open by day and close by night.
4. active by day, as certain birds and insects (opposed to nocturnal).

Origin of diurnal

1400-50; late Middle English Latin diurnālis, equivalent to diurn(us) daily + -ālis -al¹

Examples for diurnal

The diurnal rotation of the Earth is effected round this axis.

She avoided the house, but sent a woman for her diurnal love letters.

The part of the entry in the diurnal which deals with them, at least, is probably not contemporary.

From the owls to the diurnal birds of prey it is but a short step.

He accomplishes his diurnal revolution in less than ten hours!

At ten o'clock the barometer showed a disturbance of the diurnal range.

The wallet of diurnal anecdote was full, and craved unloading.

diurnal: such insects as are active or habitually fly by day only.

All were at a good height, and the whole movement had the air of a diurnal migration.

Daily is the Saxon and popular, diurnal the Latin and scientific term.