multiday

adjective

mul·​ti·​day ˌməl-tē-ˈdā How to pronounce multiday (audio)
-ˌtī-
: including, effective for, or occurring over more than one day
a multiday workshop/event/retreat
a multiday celebration
Today, Europe fills with music festivals starring the likes of Sir Andre Previn, Willie Nelson, and Snoop Dogg. The best of these multiday lollapaloozas are set near mountains, lakes, and stately buildings.Steve Knopper

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As slow travel has surged, so too has the popularity of one form in particular: multiday lodge-to-lodge hikes. Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024 Burnett had no regrets about how the multiday manhunt was conducted. Alex Sundby, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024 The plane was full — not with other aspiring whale swimmers but with folks returning home for the multiday, pre-Lent party that is Carnival, or Mas Domnik, as it’s called on Dominica. Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024 The nearby Highline School District, 15 miles south of Seattle, invested $72,000 in one of Kluck’s multiday anti-violence workshops this fall. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024 Next on Moore’s list was a $500 custom fire helmet from the Professional Firefighters Association and $200 each for two sets of meals over multiday local government conferences. Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024 This will be the second year for the Pro Bowl Games featuring a multiday AFC versus NFC competition that includes Pro Bowl Skills and culminating in a flag football game. Rob Maaddi, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024 For weeks, there have been reports of ongoing negotiations between the Israelis and Hamas through the mediation of Qatar and the United States to exchange some of the more than 230 hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners and a multiday humanitarian pause in fighting. Paul Schemm, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023 And in winter, revel in the creative Mecca of the Tempe Festival of the Arts, when hundreds of artists exhibit at booths against a backdrop of live entertainment and food and drink vendors for a multiday, multisensory affair along Mill Avenue and beyond. By sunset, Sunset Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multiday was in 1926

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“Multiday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiday. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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