TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-four hours mean?
• TWENTY-FOUR HOURS (noun)
The noun TWENTY-FOUR HOURS has 1 sense:
1. time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
Familiarity information: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TWENTY-FOUR HOURS (noun)
Meaning:
Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours
Context examples:
two days later they left / they put on two performances every day / there are 30,000 passengers per day
Hypernyms ("twenty-four hours" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Meronyms (parts of "twenty-four hours"):
day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)
dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)
60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twenty-four hours"):
tomorrow (the day after today)
today (the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow))
yesterday (the day immediately before today)
morrow (the next day)
eve (the day before)
date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)
date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)
