Colloquial
The word refers to various relatedly defined ideas, including the following:
- 24 hours (exactly)
- the period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (that is, the time period from sunrise to sunset);
- the full day covering a dark and a light period, beginning from the beginning of the dark period or from a point near the middle of the dark period;
- a full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English, from the Greek for night-day;
- the time period from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM or 9:00 PM or some other fixed clock period overlapping or set off from other time periods such as "morning", "evening", or "night".
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Famous quotes containing the word colloquial:
“Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as “going over the Rim,” and in colloquial usage the same phrase came to connote violent death.”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)