Noun: diary
| Singular | diary |
| Plural | diaries |
Sample Sentences
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They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
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No, I’m just going over the stuff Tara wrote in my diary.
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She’s writing your diary? Could you be any lazier? [2005 January 30, Jef Biederman, “Feng Shui Is Like So Passe”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Baker as Clover and Katie Griffin), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:]
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Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation. [2016 March 24, Darryl Sterdan, “ZAYN’s ‘Mind of Mine’ and Gwen Stefani’s ‘This is What the Truth Feels Like’ top this week’s new music”, in The Toronto Star, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2018:]
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It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable. [2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework, page 29:]
Nouns inflected like diary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”). See: Latin Nouns '
diārium', Spanish Nouns '
diario'.
Verbs referencing "diary"
Spanish Nouns
diario, Finnish Nouns
diaari.