Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

continuance

the property of enduring or continuing in time

 

ephemera

something transitory; lasting a day

 

complin

last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring

 

triple-crown season

a season of baseball during which a player wins the triple crown

 

week

any period of seven consecutive days

 

night

a shortening of nightfall

 

prime time

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

 

airspeed

the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying

 

May

the month following April and preceding June

 

Mohammedan calendar

the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years

 

midterm

the middle of the gestation period

 

entr'acte

the interlude between two acts of a play

 

spacing

the time between occurrences of a repeating event

 

Thanksgiving Day

fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag

 

regulation time

(sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game

 

bachelorhood

the time of a man's life prior to marriage

 

off-season

the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest

 

age

a prolonged period of time

 

pubescence

the time of life when sex glands become functional

 

face time

work time spent at the location of or in the presence of other people