daytimenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdeɪ.taɪm/us/ˈdeɪ.taɪm/B2 the period between the time when the sun rises and the time it goes down, or the part of the day that is neither evening nor night:
I tend to sleep in/during the daytime and study at night.
a regular daytime job
a daytime phone number
daytime television
More examples
- The heat is much worse in the daytime.
- Our cat likes to sleep in the daytime and go out at night.
- Can you give us a phone number for contacting you during the daytime, please?
- It's so dark and gloomy today it hardly seems like daytime at all, does it?
- I'd prefer a flight that leaves in the daytime, as I'll have young children with me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Days & times of day
- afternoon
- afternoons
- am
- at the crack of dawn idiom
- bedtime
- circadian
- crepuscular
- last orders
- lighting-up time
- local time
- lunch hour
- lunchtime
- office hours
- opening time
- overnight
- playtime
- pm
- rush hour
- twilit
- watershed
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