jour
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Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
jour (plural jours)
- (chiefly US) Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.
See also
other terms containing "jour", etymologically unrelated
Etymology
From Middle French jour, from Old French jor(n), from Late Latin diurnum. Doublet of diurne, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
jour m (plural jours)
- 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.
- 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.
- daylight, light
- opening, aperture
Derived terms
- à ce jour
- à chaque jour suffit sa peine
- à jour
- Ancien des jours
- astre du jour
- au goût du jour
- au grand jour
- au jour d’aujourd’hui
- au jour le jour
- avoir de beaux jours devant soi
- barbe de trois jours
- bas à jour
- beau comme le jour
- ces jours-ci
- clair comme le jour
- de jour
- de nos jours
- demain est un autre jour
- donner le jour
- du jour au lendemain
- faire jour
- finir ses jours
- grand jour
- jour de l’an
- jour de paie
- jour du Seigneur
- jour du Seigneur
- jour du Souvenir
- jour et nuit
- jour férié
- jour fixe
- Jour J
- jour ouvrable
- jour pour jour
- long comme un jour sans pain
- menu du jour
- mettre à jour
- mettre au jour
- mettre fin à ses jours
- mise à jour
- nuit et jour
- ordre du jour
- paon du jour
- Paris ne s’est pas fait en un jour
- percer à jour
- petit jour
- plat du jour
- quinze jours
- Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour
- se faire jour
- se montrer sous son meilleur jour
- tous les jours
- un de ces jours
- un jour
- vieux jours
- voir le jour
Related terms
Descendants
- → Norwegian Bokmål: jour
Further reading
- “jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs + -nus.
Noun
jour m (plural jours)
Descendants
References
- jour on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Alternative forms
- jouo (continental Normandy)
- djö (Sark)
Etymology
From Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum.
Pronunciation
Noun
jour m (plural jours)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) day
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, pages 530-31:
- Février dit à Janvier:—'Si j'étais à votre pièche je f'rais gelaïr le pots sus le faeu et les p'tits éfàns aux seins de leurs mères'—et pour son ìmpudence i' fut raccourchi de daeux jours, et Janvier fut aloigni.
- February said to January:—If I were in your place I would cause the pots to freeze on the fire, and babes at their mothers' breasts—and for his insolence he was shortened of two days, and January was lengthened.
Derived terms
- Jour dé l'An (“New Year's Day”)
- jour de naissànse (“birthday”)
- Jour d'la Libéthâtion (“Liberation Day”)
- jour pouor lé Rouai (“day off”)
- tchînze jours (“fortnight”)
Related terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
jour
- Only used in à jour (“up to date, transparent”)
- Only used in a jour (“up to date, transparent”)
- Only used in ha jour (“to have a day of service; have a guard (or certain specific duties) on a certain day”)
Derived terms
- jourhavende (“serving for the day”)
References
Alternative forms
- jorn (Classical)
Noun
jour m (plural jours)
Noun
jour c
- on-call duty
- 1998, “Jag ska bli en byråkrat [I will [shall] be a bureaucrat]”, in Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music), Electric Banana Tajm [Electric Banana Time [with jocular Swedification of "time"]], performed by Electric Banana Band:
- Och så, när klockan slår fem, då slutar jag och åker hem. Jag slipper nattskift och jour. Sån vill jag bli när jag blir stor.
- And then, when the clock strikes five, [then] I finish and go home. I don't have to work night shifts and be on call [do not have to deal with night shifts and on-call duty]. I want to be a person like that when I grow up [[a] such [person] I want to become when I become big].
- an on-call service or on-call personnel or the like; emergency services, a hotline, etc.
- ringa jouren
- call the emergency services
Declension
Declension of jour
Derived terms
- bakjour (“on-call doctor to aid on-duty doctor”)
- helgjour (“weekend duty”)
- jourhavande (“on-duty”)
- jourläkarare (“doctor-on-call”)
- journummer (“hotline number”)
- jourpräst (“priest-on-call”)
- jourtjänstgöring (“on-call duty”)
- telefonjour (“telephone hotline”)
References
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