diarynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdaɪə.ri/us/ˈdaɪr.i/a book in which you record your thoughts or feelings or what has happened each day:
While in hiding, Anne Frank kept a diary.
A2 UK US datebook a book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your future arrangements, meetings, etc.:
Don't forget to write/enter the date of the meeting in your diary.
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- The following is an extract from her diary.
- Hold on, I'll check in my diary.
- I've kept a diary for twelve years now.
- I've put the date of the party down in my diary.
- As his illness progressed, he made fewer entries in his diary.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Schedules & agendas
- agenda
- AOB
- business plan
- calendar
- datebook
- fit
- Hejira
- itinerary
- journal
- make
- make time idiom
- order
- order paper
- pack
- spread sth over sth
- squeeze sb/sth in
- stagger
- TBD
- the order of the day idiom
- timetable
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