twenty-four hours

Questions about twenty-four hours

What does twenty-four hours mean?

twenty-four hours means "time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis".

What is another word for twenty-four hours?

Close synonyms include day, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day. 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 twenty-four hours a common word?

twenty-four hours 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.