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Definition of Twenty-four hours
1. Noun. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis. "There are 30,000 passengers per day"
Generic synonyms: Time Unit, Unit Of Time
Specialized synonyms: Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday, Morrow, Eve, Date, Day Of The Month, Date
Terms within: Day, Daylight, Daytime, High Noon, Midday, Noon, Noonday, Noontide, Twelve Noon, Dark, Night, Nighttime, 60 Minutes, Hour, Hr
Derivative terms: Daily
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-four Hours
Literary usage of Twenty-four hours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"kept at a temperature of 86° for twenty-four hours. At the expiration of that
time it was feebly acid, and afforded seven grains of sugar. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"In rue, the worms lived upwards of twenty-four hours. 9. The same was the case with
... In all these the worms lived more than twenty-four hours. ..."
3. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"APPEARANCES INDICATIVE OF A CHILD HAVING LIVED twenty-four hours—FROM TWO TO ...
After twenty-four hours.—The skin is firm and pale, or less red than soon ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"From Marseilles to Barcelona, one day, and four hours' stay; from Barcelona to
Cadiz, three days, and twenty-four hours' stay; from Cadiz to Madeira, ..."
5. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After by Richard Henry Dana (1909)
"By this means they divide the twenty-four hours into seven watches instead of
six, and thus shift the hours every night. As the dog watches come during ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"From Marseilles to Barcelona, one day, and four hours' stay; from Barcelona to
Cadiz, three days, and twenty-four hours' stay; from Cadiz to ..."
7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... above three times in twenty-four hours, from that holy place. CHAP. VIII. ...
of prayers returns five times in twenty-four hours, or a natural day : the ..."
8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... the surface increases 4 or 5 square feet in twenty-four hours, and a plant
will produce in twenty-one to twenty-five weeks 600 or 700 square feet of ..."
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