diary

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: di=a=ry

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diary, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a daily record of events or thoughts.
2 a book for this or for noting future engagements, usu. printed and with a calendar and other information.

Etymology

L diarium f. dies day

DEVIL DICTIONARY

diary

n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ
All that he had of wisdom and of wit.
So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died,
Erased all entries of his own and cried:
"I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst:
"Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" --
Straightway producing, jubilant and proud,
That record from a pocket in his shroud.
The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er,
Each stupid line of which he knew before,
Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit
On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit;
Then gravely closed the book and gave it back.
"My friend, you've wandered from your proper track:
You'd never be content this side the tomb --
For big ideas Heaven has little room,
And Hell's no latitude for making mirth,"
He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth.
"The Mad Philosopher"

THESAURUS

diary

Clio, Domesday Book, Muse of history, account book, address book, adventures, adversaria, album, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, autobiography, bimonthly, biographical sketch, biography, biweekly, blankbook, blotter, calendar, case history, cashbook, catalog, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, classified catalog, clock card, commonplace book, confessions, court calendar, curriculum vitae, daily, date slip, datebook, daybook, desk calendar, diptych, docket, engagement book, ephemeris, experiences, fortnightly, fortunes, gazette, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, journal, ledger, legend, life, life and letters, life story, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, magazine, martyrology, memo book, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum book, memorial, memorials, memory book, monthly, necrology, newsmagazine, notebook, obituary, organ, pad, periodical, petty cashbook, photobiography, pictorial, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, profile, quarterly, record, register, registry, resume, review, scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, slick magazine, spiral notebook, story, table, tablet, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, trade magazine, triptych, weekly, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

ROGET THESAURUS

diary

Chronometry

N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.