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 Cinematographer Adam Carboni frames most of the movie in a glowing daytime warmth, peppered with gorgeous intermissions that plunge the audience into starry nights that give the whole affair a music video-like pulse. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 It can be integrated through better alcohol-free drinks, sober meet-ups, daytime programming, new partnerships and marketing that doesn’t automatically use alcohol as shorthand for having a good time. — Sunita Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 An ingenious means of admitting natural light has been contrived so that, during the daytime, parts of these wonderfully austere and stony subterranean cellars, which ought to be very dark indeed, remain softly radiant. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026 Carr has argued that nothing is preventing late-night or daytime talk shows from featuring a political candidate as a guest. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daytime

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Noun

Geiger-Müller and neutron detectors found no detectable gamma or X-ray emissions, while neutron counts remained statistically indistinguishable from background during about five days of monitoring.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
My king bed was crisp, puffy, and beyond dreamy to slip into after a long day on my feet.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of day

Noun

The report explicitly noted that Asian investors increasingly seek to trade US markets during their local daylight hours.

— , CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
Major cities including Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Washington DC, and Boston have all already lost upwards of two hours of daylight since the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

— Tyler Ory, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of daylight

Noun

By Tuesday afternoon, all of his remaining tour openers — Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Row — had dropped out of the tour along with Beoga, who played as a backing band for a portion of the set.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2026
Needing coffee immediately upon waking and experiencing afternoon fatigue, irritability, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbances, and sugar cravings.

— Marie Bladt, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026

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