twenty-four hours

Questions about twenty-four hours

What is another word for twenty-four hours?

It depends which twenty-four hours you mean. In the sense “time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis”, the synonyms are day, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 twenty-four hours?

WordNet records no antonym for twenty-four hours. 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 twenty-four hours 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 twenty-four hours

• Full entry for twenty-four hoursAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for twenty-four hoursWhether 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.