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Definition of Time of day
1. Noun. Clock time. "The hour is getting late"
Generic synonyms: Clock Time, Time
Specialized synonyms: High Noon, Midday, Noon, Noonday, Noontide, Twelve Noon, Mealtime, Late-night Hour, Midnight, Small Hours, Bedtime, Closing Time, Aurora, Break Of Day, Break Of The Day, Cockcrow, Dawn, Dawning, Daybreak, Dayspring, First Light, Morning, Sunrise, Sunup, Early-morning Hour, Sundown, Sunset, Crepuscle, Crepuscule, Dusk, Evenfall, Fall, Gloam, Gloaming, Nightfall, Twilight, None, Happy Hour, Rush Hour, Zero Hour, Canonical Hour
Derivative terms: Horary
Definition of Time of day
1. Noun. (archaic) The time according to the clock. ¹
2. Noun. A loosely specified period of time, minutes or hours in duration, especially daytime, or point in time. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete except in an idiom by ellipsis) The greeting appropriate to the time of day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Time Of Day
Literary usage of Time of day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's Minding the Kids: Child Care Arrangements Fall 1991 by Lynne W. Casper (1994)
"Categories of shift work in this report were derived from questions in the survey
concerning the time- of-day work usually began and ended, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The present article deals mainly with fractions of a day, or with what is commonly
called the "time of day." To express the time of day we must have a ..."
3. Schiller's Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller (1898)
"Scene 2, the same day, time of day not indicated. Scene 3, same day, probably
afternoon. Act IV, Scene I, same day as Act III, Scene 3. ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... Fondness of English Ladic* towards French Footmen, which, at that Time of Day,
was a too common complaint. ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"That afternoon he met me in the hall, and asked me the time of day, though there
happened disagreeable ; but, after a while, I mado up my mind not to regard ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"are to be so easily gulled at this time of day. Every one knows that if he I can
hardly suppress a smile, that the Secretary should think that people others ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The present article deals mainly with fractions of a day, or with what is commonly
called the "time of day." To express the time of day we must have a ..."
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