daytime

UK/ˈdeɪtaɪm/US/ˈdeɪtaɪm/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,254 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: daytimes

Daytime is the hours between sunrise and sunset. When the light is doing the work.

It is used as a noun and as a modifier, so daytime television, a daytime job and daytime opening hours are all standard. Broadcasting uses it as a category with a whole culture attached, since daytime television has a reputation of its own. Its opposite is night-time, which British English usually hyphenates. The word is one word and it never takes a plural.

Definitions of daytime

1noundaytimeThe part of the day when it is light.B2
“The road is much busier in the daytime.”

Where it comes from

From day + time.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 10 of A Man Called Ove.

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daytime in the wild

At that time, many prime time series lost money, while daytime serials earned profits several times more than their production costs.
Soap opera
As of December 12, 2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young and the Restless marked an unprecedented 1,300 weeks, or 25 years, as the highest-rated daytime drama.
The Young and the Restless
General Hospital also spawned the daytime series Port Charles and the primetime spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift.
General Hospital
From 1979 to 1988, General Hospital had more viewers than any other daytime soap opera.
General Hospital
At any given time, about half of the Earth is facing the Sun and experiencing daytime.
Daytime

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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