daytime

See also: day-time and day time

English

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daytime

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• day-time

Etymology

From day +‎ time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtaɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

daytime (usually uncountable, plural daytimes)

1. The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.
   • 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

     In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.

Synonyms

• day; see also Thesaurus:daytime

Antonyms

• night, nighttime; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

Derived terms

• daytimer
• daytimes
• daytime serial
• nondaytime
• predaytime

Related terms

• daily
• diurnal

Translations

the time of daylight

Arabic: نَهَارُ (ar) m (nahāru) Algerian Arabic: نهار m (nhār) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܡܵܡܵܐ m (īmama) Hebrew: איממא (īmāmā, īmomo) m Syriac: ܐܝܡܡܐ (īmāmā, īmomo) m Armenian: ցերեկ (hy) (cʻerek), օր (hy) (ōr), (archaic) տիվ (hy) (tiv) Azerbaijani: gündüz (az) Bikol Central: aldaw (bcl) Catalan: dia (ca) m Chichewa: msaná class 3, usana class 14 Chinese: Mandarin: 白天 (zh) (báitiān), 日間 / 日间 (zh) (rìjiān) Crimean Tatar: kündüz Danish: dagtid c Esperanto: tage (eo) Finnish: päiväsaika (fi) French: journée (fr) f, jour (fr) m Galician: día (gl) m German: heller Tag m, Tageszeit (de) f Hungarian: nappal (hu) Ido: jorno (io) Indonesian: siang (id), siang hari (id) Italian: giornata (it), dì (it) m Japanese: 昼間 (ja) (ひるま, hiruma) Javanese: awan, siyang (jv), rina (jv), rinten (jv) Khiamniungan Naga: ānyìh Korean: 하루 (ko) (haru), 낮 (ko) (nat) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕۆژگار (ckb) (rojgar) Latin: dies (la) m or f Malay: siang (ms) Malayalam: പകൽ സമയം (pakal samayaṁ) Old English: dæġtīd f, dæġtīma m Old Javanese: dinakāla, siyaṅ Ottoman Turkish: كوندوز (gündüz) Portuguese: dia (pt) m Romanian: zi (ro) Russian: день (ru) m (denʹ), дневно́е вре́мя n (dnevnóje vrémja) Southern Altai: кӱндӱс (kündüs) Spanish: día (es) Swedish: dagtid (sv) c Thai: กลางวัน (th) (glaang-wan) Turkish: gündüz (tr) Vietnamese: ban ngày (vi) Welsh: dydd (cy) m Zulu: ilanga (zu) class 5/6 ǃXóõ: gòhba

Adjective

daytime (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.
2. Happening during the day.

   daytime television

Synonyms

• (pertaining to daytime): day
• (happening during the day): day

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “pertaining to daytime”): evening, night, nighttime
• (antonym(s) of “happening during the day”): evening, night, nighttime

Derived terms

• daytime drama

Translations

pertaining to daytime, appropriate to the day

Danish: dagtid Hungarian: nappali (hu), napközbeni, napközi (hu) Russian: дневно́й (ru) (dnevnój) Swedish: dagtid (sv) Ukrainian: де́нний (dénnyj)

happening during the day

Hungarian: (please verify) nappali (hu) Russian: дневно́й (ru) (dnevnój) Ukrainian: де́нний (dénnyj)

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