Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- sidereal time
- measured by the diurnal motion of stars
- millennium
- (New Testament) in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness
- last minute
- the latest possible moment
- moment
- at this time
- middle age
- the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
- moratorium
- a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged
- market day
- a fixed day for holding a public market
- 1940s
- the decade from 1940 to 1949
- time immemorial
- the distant past beyond memory
- quarter
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- year dot
- as long ago as anyone can remember
- menstrual phase
- the phase of the menstrual cycle during which the lining of the uterus is shed (the first day of menstrual flow is considered day 1 of the menstrual cycle)
- alpha and omega
- the first and last; signifies God's eternity
- Christian era
- the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth
- Neolithic Age
- latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
- SCLK
- the clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft
- feria
- a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
- term
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- November 5
- anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
- Priscoan aeon
- the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life
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