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| Main Entry: |
day
 [dey] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light part of every 24 hours |
| Synonyms: | astronomical day, bright, dawn-to-dark, daylight, daytime, diurnal course, early bright, light, light of day, mean solar day, nautical day, sidereal day, sunlight, sunrise-to-sunset, sunshine, working day |
| Antonyms: | evening, night |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a period of time |
| Synonyms: | aeon, blue moon, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
| Synonyms: | age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year |
Example Sentences
- Many departments invite guest speakers to give a talk and spend a day or two visiting as part of a seminar series.
- If it never sees the light of day again, offshore processing seems doomed.
- So they took one snapshot of data and called it a day.
| Main Entry: | daylight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light part of 24 hours |
| Synonyms: | aurora, dawn, day, daybreak, daytime, during the day, light, light of day, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine |
| Antonyms: | darkness, evening, night, sunset |
| Main Entry: | era |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time period in history |
| Synonyms: | aeon, age, cycle, date, day, days, eon, epoch, generation, stage, term, time |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era; age group |
| Synonyms: | aeon, breed, contemporaries, crop, day, days, eon, epoch, peers, period, rank, span, step, time, times |
| Main Entry: | heyday |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prime |
| Synonyms: | acme, culmination, day, height, high point, high spot, peak, pinnacle, prime time, salad days, time, zenith |
| Antonyms: | low point |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
gray, gray, time, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
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