time of day

English

Noun

time of day (plural times of day)

1. 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."

   She would fold laundry at this time of day.

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

3. The greeting appropriate to the time of day. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (dialectal, informal, dated) era: time; day.

   that's how it was in that time of day [ = at that time, back in that day]

6. (archaic) The right thing; the ticket; that which is needed.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     ‘Never mind me, Sir,’ replied Sam. ‘Lend him a hand, Mr. Winkle, sir. Steady, sir, steady! That’s the time o’ day!’

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

Related terms

• give the time of day
• 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)
• Georgian: დღის მონაკვეთი (dɣis monaḳveti), დღის პერიოდი (dɣis ṗeriodi)
• German: Tageszeit (de) f
• Hungarian: napszak (hu)
• Polish: pora dnia (pl) f
• Romanian: timpul zilei n
• Russian: вре́мя (ru) n (vrémja)

greetings appropriate to the time of day

• Finnish: päivää (fi)
• Russian: вре́мя су́ток n (vrémja sútok) (as in "до́брого вре́мени су́ток"), приве́т (ru) m (privét)

See also

• know what's o'clock