DAYTIME
Dictionary entry overview: What does daytime mean?
• DAYTIME (noun)
The noun DAYTIME has 1 sense:
1. the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Familiarity information: DAYTIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DAYTIME (noun)
Meaning:
The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
daylight; daytime; day
Context examples:
the dawn turned night into day / it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
Hypernyms ("daytime" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "daytime"):
forenoon; morn; morning; morning time (the time period between dawn and noon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daytime"):
afternoon (the part of the day between noon and evening)
midafternoon (the middle part of the afternoon)
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
Holonyms ("daytime" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
