time of day
Noun
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Noun
time of day
- (archaic) The time according to the clock.
- 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."
- There was no time of day that ever seemed appropriate.
- She would fold laundry at this time of day.
- I love that time of day. The light is magical.
- (obsolete, except in an idiom, by ellipsis) The greeting appropriate to the time of day.
- The girl walking down the street wouldn't give Holden Caulfield the time of day.
- (Used in The Catcher and The Rye written by J.D. Salinger)
- (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)
- German: Tageszeit
- Russian: вре́мя
- Russian: вре́мя су́ток
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