diary
noun /ˈdaɪəri/
/ˈdaɪəri/
(plural diaries)
- a book in which you can write down the experiences you have each day, your private thoughts, etc.
- Do you keep a diary (= write one regularly)?
- Peter began writing his diary in October last year.
- the diaries of Samuel Pepys
- The writer's letters and diaries are being published next year.
- I think I'm going to start an online diary.
- a travel/sleep/food diary
- in a diary ‘It's all over,’ he wrote in his diary for April 21.
- her diary entry for 9 December 2017
Extra Examples- He jotted down observations on the animals' habits in his field diary.
- I starting keeping a diary when I was thirteen.
- No one is allowed to read my diary.
- I used to keep a secret diary when I was a teenager.
- She writes her thoughts down in her personal diary every night.
- The captain recorded in his diary that food supplies were running low.
- The play is based on the diary of Anne Frank.
- This was the very last entry in her diary.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- detailed
- daily
- personal
- …
- keep
- note something in
- record something in
- …
- entry
- in a/your diary
- an entry in a diary
- (British English)(North American English appointment book, appointment calendar, datebook)a book or an app with spaces for each day of the year in which you can record things you have to do in the future
- I used to keep a desk diary for business appointments.
- an appointments diary
- in a diary I've made a note in my diary.
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifea2- I didn't have the meeting in my diary.
- Put it in your diary before you forget.
- I'm afraid my diary is full for this week, but I could see you next Monday.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- appointments
- bookings
- engagement
- …
- have something in
- put something in
- write something in
- …
- in a/your diary
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin diarium, from dies ‘day’.