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An example use of day in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… every hour of every day of the year even …”
Day is a 24-hour period of time.
the word day occurs in english on average 1337 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.