DAYTIME Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

daytime

noun

ˈdā-ˌtīm

Definition of daytime

as in day

the hours of light between one night and the next it's a lot easier to find your way through a strange neighborhood in the daytime

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Recent Examples of daytime Northern cities such as Coeur d’Alene will lose an average of nearly three and a half minutes of daytime every day, according to Time and Date. — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2026 Unlike the summer and winter solstices, the equinoxes do not mark longer nights or days, but instead give us days that are equal daytime and nighttime. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 The daytime high on Saturday will be close to 100 again, and fire concerns will continue. — Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Miss Manners will point out, however, that daytime wedding wear in a cathedral is still formal. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daytime

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Noun

Meta’s latest announcement comes at the same time that OpenAI is holding its developer day.

— Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Sarandos was a voracious consumer of movies and television, a passion that stretched back to his days working at home-video stores.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of day

Noun

In reality, most locations experience slightly more than 12 hours of daylight on the equinox, thanks to atmospheric refraction and the way sunrise and sunset times are defined.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Idaho cities can expect to lose between 80 and 100 minutes of daylight over the course of September.

— Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of daylight

Noun

Heavy rain fell across the southern part of the Big Island on Saturday afternoon, prompting partial closures of one of the main highways linking Kailua-Kona in the west to Hilo in the east.

— Eugene Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The Carolina Panthers mostly struggled on Sunday afternoon and made a late-game mistake that paved the way for a Cleveland Browns go-ahead touchdown with less than two minutes to go.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2026

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