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day-time

day-time is the alternative spelling of daytime.

Meaning of daytime

Adjective

daytime (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.
    • The forecast calls for a slight warming trend in the coming days, with sunny skies and daytime temperatures reaching the midteens on Sunday and Monday, when the men will hit the snowboard course.2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022
    Synonyms:
    day
  2. Happening during the day.
    • daytime television
    Synonyms:
    day

See all 3 meanings of daytime

Questions about day-time

What is day-time the alternative spelling of?
Day-time is the alternative spelling of daytime.

Words near day-time in the dictionary

  1. day-peep
  2. day-scholar
  3. day-scholars
  4. day-sight
  5. Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
  6. day-time
  7. day-to-day
  8. day-to-night
  9. day-trade
  10. day-traded
  11. day-trader

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day-time (page history and authors); daytime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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