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Definition of Dog days
1. Noun. The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity.
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Group relationships: Summer, Summertime
Derivative terms: Canicular, Canicular
Definition of Dog days
1. Noun. The days between early July and early September when Sirius (the Dog Star) rises and sets with the Sun. ¹
2. Noun. hot, lazy days ¹
3. Noun. A period of inactivity, laziness, or stagnation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Days
Literary usage of Dog days
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Acoording to their theory, the dog-star or Sirius, ri шк with the sun, added to
its heat, and the dog-days bore the combined heat of the dog-star and the ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"274 ; cf. pp. 116-17). finished unless he had some new project ready.' Two years
before his death his heult h began to fail. As the dog-days drew on ho took ..."
3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"Dog-Days. According to the ordinary computation, these begin on July 3 and continue
to August 11. They derive their name from the heliacal rising and ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"They accordingly conferred the name of DOG-DAYS upon the period between the 3d
of July ... Yet the Dog-days continues to be a popular phrase, and probably ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"This is furnished to the pasture-mushroom by the fogs, mists, and dews of dog-days.
It is often unwittingly furnished in the hot-house by the attendant when ..."
6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Cutting off the turf with a beating axe. Devon. not only in respect of the dog-days
hut also for diverse other weighty considerations, ..."
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