time of day

English

Noun

time of day (plural times of day)

1. (archaic) The time according to the clock.
2. A loosely specified period of time, minutes or hours in duration, especially daytime, or point in time.

   "At what time of day and year are the winds strongest?" / "Winter mornings, I think."

   There was no time of day that ever seemed appropriate.

   She would fold laundry at this time of day.

   I love that time of day. The light is magical.

3. (obsolete, except in an idiom, by ellipsis) The greeting appropriate to the time of day.

   The girl walking down the street wouldn't give Holden Caulfield the time of day.

   (Used in The Catcher and The Rye written by J.D. Salinger)

Synonyms

• (time according to the clock): time, clock time, o'clock (mostly dialect)
• (loosely specified period of time): time
• (loosely specified point in time): time, hour
• (greetings appropriate to the time of day):

Hyponyms

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Coordinate terms

• time of night
• time of year

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fair time of day
• give somebody the time of day
• good time of day

• know the time of day
• pass the time of day
• time of day animation

Related terms

• time of the month

Translations

time according to the clock — see time

loosely specified period of or point in time

• Finnish: aika päivästä, vuorokaudenaika (fi)
• German: Tageszeit (de) f
• Hungarian: napszak (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: timpul zilei m
• Russian: вре́мя (ru) n (vrémja)

greetings appropriate to the time of day

• Finnish: päivää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вре́мя су́ток n (vrémja sútok) (as in "до́брого вре́мени су́ток"), приве́т (ru) m (privét)