Diary I ˈdaɪəri Note Meeting Write Desk Make

• a desk diary
• i'll make a note of our next meeting in my diary.
• do you keep a diary (= write one regularly)?
• the writer's letters and diaries are being published next year.

diary

1. a book with spaces for each day of the year in which you can write down things you have to do in the future
• a desk diary
• I'll make a note of our next meeting in my diary.
2. a book in which you can write down the experiences you have each day, your private thoughts, etc.
• see also journal
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/journal
• Do you keep a diary (= write one regularly)?
• The writer's letters and diaries are being published next year.
• The Diary of Anne Frank.
• a bus/train timetable.

Extra Examples

• ‘It’s all over,’ he wrote in his diary for April 21.
• He jotted down observations on the animals’ habits in his field diary.
• I didn’t have the meeting in my diary.
• I starting keeping a diary when I was thirteen.
• I’ve made a note in my diary.
• No one is allowed to read my diary.
• Put it in your diary before you forget.
• His letters and diaries are to be published next year.
• I keep a desk diary for business appointments.
• I used to keep a secret diary when I was a teenager.
• I’ll just make a note of that date in my diary.
• I’m afraid my diary is full for this week, but I could see you next Monday.
• Put the date of the meeting in the diary, would you, Bob?
• 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.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent.: from Latin diarium, from dies ‘day’.