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Definition of Daytime
1. Noun. The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside. "It is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Group relationships: 24-hour Interval, Day, Mean Solar Day, Solar Day, Twenty-four Hour Period, Twenty-four Hours
Terms within: Forenoon, Morn, Morning, Morning Time
Specialized synonyms: Afternoon, Midafternoon, Eve, Even, Evening, Eventide
Antonyms: Night
Definition of Daytime
1. n. The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Definition of Daytime
1. Noun. The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day. ¹
3. Adjective. Happening during the day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daytime
1. day [n -S] - See also: day
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daytime
Literary usage of Daytime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1871)
"(c) That CD, late of B., in the County of S., laborer, on the first day of June,
in the year of our Lord in the daytime of said day, with force and arms, ..."
2. The Industrial and Commercial Schools of the United States and Germany: A by Frederick William Roman (1915)
"(b) Transition to daytime Instruction during Week. daytime instruction during
the week is conceded to be the more result-producing; hence, in the compulsory ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Arking (9) found from Tiros photographs that the percentage of cloud cover during
the daytime over various land masses was essentially the same as that over ..."
4. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"... worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of man. 37 And in the daytime he was teaching in the temple; ..."
5. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, Edward Manson, John Melville Gould (1898)
"A DISTRESS for rent must be made in the daytime; that is to say, between sunrise
and sunset. Tutton v. Darke. Nixon v. Freeman. 89 LJ Ex. 271-274 (sc 5 Hurl ..."
6. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"During the whole of the successful period of the drama in Spain, its exhibitions
took place in the daytime. On the stages of the different palaces, where, ..."
7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1895)
"daytime.—In general, if only the lower punishment is sought to be inflicted, it
is not necessary to allege daytime in the indictment.2 clare that the ..."
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