Alldayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

all day (not comparable)

1. For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.

   Coordinate term: all night

   There hasn't been a breath of wind all day.

   • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock‎:

     So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
     They cannot see the sun on high:
     The wind hath blown a gale all day;
     At evening it hath died away.

2. (figuratively) Easily; handily; in spades; by far.

   Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.

3. (cooking, slang) In total.

   Table 2 needs three tacos, and Table 4 needs six, so that's nine tacos, all day.

派生語

• can do this all day

関連する語

• as the day is long, daylong, dayslong, for days

参考

• livelong

発音

• (General American) enPR: ôl'dāʹ, IPA: /ˌɔlˈdeɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôl'dāʹ, IPA: /ˌɔːlˈdeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

形容詞

all-day (not comparable)

1. Lasting throughout the whole day.

   an all-day event

2. Available throughout the whole day.

   all-day breakfast

参考

• all-dayer
• all-night