journal
Other forms: journals; journaling; journaled
If you keep a daily––or at least somewhat regular––written account of your life, you are keeping a diary or journal. A journal is also a periodical, such as a scientific journal or a scholarly journal.
Journal comes from an Old French word which meant daily (jour being the French word for day, as in soup du jour, or “soup of the day”). You can keep a journal in an old notebook, on the computer, or on scraps of paper, but if you keep it in a book made especially for that purpose, then that physical book (whether you've written in it or not) is called a journal.
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a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observationssynonyms: diarytype of:piece of writing, writing, written materialthe work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)
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a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurredsynonyms: daybooktype of:account book, book, book of account, ledger, legera record in which commercial accounts are recorded
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write personal experiences and observations in a diary
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a record book as a physical object
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a periodical dedicated to a particular subject“he reads the medical journals”types:annalsreports of the work of a society or learned body etctype of:periodicala publication that appears at fixed intervals
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the part of the axle contained by a bearingtype of:axlea shaft on which a wheel rotates
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