daylight-saving time

Questions about daylight-saving time

What is another word for daylight-saving time?

It depends which daylight-saving time you mean. In the sense “time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings”, the synonyms are daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of daylight-saving time?

WordNet records no antonym for daylight-saving time. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for daylight-saving time come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of daylight-saving time

• Full entry for daylight-saving timeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for daylight-saving timeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.