time of day

Questions about time of day

What does time of day mean?

time of day means "clock time".

What is another word for time of day?

Close synonyms include hour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is time of day a common word?

time of day 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.