prime time

1. 1.

   the hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available

   Broaderclock time

Questions about prime time

What does prime time mean?

prime time means "the hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available".

Is prime time a common word?

prime time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.