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Tag

Pronunciation: /taːk/

“Tag” is a German word. Its 12 meanings in English:

noun

  1. day (a 24-hour period)
  2. day (the period from midnight to the following midnight)
  3. day (the rotational period of a planet, moon or any celestial body (especially Earth))
  4. day, daylight (the period between sunrise and sunset when there is daylight)
  5. day, daylight, light (light from the Sun)
  6. light (open view; a visible state or condition)
  7. day (the part of a day which one spends at work, school, etc.)
  8. day (a specified time or period, considered with reference to the prominence or success (in life or in an argument or conflict) of a person or thing)
  9. convention, congress (a formal assembly)
  10. see Tage for plural-only senses
  11. tag (label)

interjection

  1. hello; (good) day

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German tac, from Old High German tag, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. In earlier legal documents since Middle High German, Tag was frequently used in the meaning of “a fixed day for meeting, debate, or appointment,” which was associated with words like Reichstag, Landtag, later Ratstag, and tagen…

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