daylight savings

Questions about daylight savings

What is another word for daylight savings?

It depends which daylight savings 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-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving. 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 savings?

WordNet records no antonym for daylight savings. 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 savings 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 savings

• Full entry for daylight savingsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for daylight savingsWhether 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.