noun
Meaning 1
The time according to the clock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Phrase guide
time of day
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noun
Meaning 2
A loosely specified period of time, minutes or hours in duration, especially daytime, or point in time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- "At what time of day and year are the winds strongest?" / "Winter mornings, I think, or maybe at day’s end."
- She would fold laundry at this time of day.
- I love that time of day. The light is magical.
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noun
Meaning 3
The greeting appropriate to the time of day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to give/bid someone the time of day
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noun
Meaning 4
era: time; day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, dialectal, informal
Examples
- that's how it was in that time of day [ = at that time, back in that day]
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noun
Meaning 5
The right thing; the ticket; that which is needed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 6
clock time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the hour is getting late
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clock time, time
Narrower terms: noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide, mealtime, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, bedtime, closing time, dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow, early-morning hour, sunset, sundown, twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle, none, happy hour, rush hour, zero hour, canonical hour
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Polish: czas — time according to the clock
- Spanish: hora del día — time according to the clock
- Dutch: moment van de dag — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Finnish: aika päivästä — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Finnish: vuorokaudenaika — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Georgian: დღის მონაკვეთი (dɣis monaḳveti) — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Georgian: დღის პერიოდი (dɣis ṗeriodi) — loosely specified period of or point in time
- German: Tageszeit — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Hungarian: napszak — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Icelandic: tími dags — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Irish: am den lá — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Polish: pora dnia — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Romanian: timpul zilei — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Russian: вре́мя (vrémja) — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Spanish: hora del día — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Swedish: tid på dagen — loosely specified period of or point in time
- Finnish: päivää — greetings appropriate to the time of day
- Polish: powitanie — greetings appropriate to the time of day
- Russian: вре́мя су́ток (vrémja sútok) — greetings appropriate to the time of day
- Russian: приве́т (privét) — greetings appropriate to the time of day