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[ noun ] the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

Synonyms

day daylight

Examples

"the dawn turned night into day" "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

Used in print

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

To find_out , we traveled throughout that part of Laos still nominally controlled , in the daytime at_least , by the Royal_Lao_Army : from Attopeu , the City of Buffalo Dung in the southeast , to Muong_Sing , the City of Lions in the northwest , close to Communist_China ( map , page 250 ) .

2
[ adjective ] happening during or appropriate to the day

Examples

"a daytime job" "daytime television" "daytime clothes"

Related terms

nighttime diurnal

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