Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- eventide
- the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- menstrual cycle
- a recurring cycle (beginning at menarche and ending at menopause) in which the endometrial lining of the uterus prepares for pregnancy; if pregnancy does not occur the lining is shed at menstruation
- zero hour
- the time set for the start of an action or operation
- maiden over
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
- continuum
- a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
- Nowrooz
- (Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox
- year-end
- the end of a calendar year
- triple time
- musical time with three beats in each bar
- winter
- the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
- Twelfth night
- eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5
- octave
- a feast day and the seven days following it
- middle watch
- a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
- Lammas Day
- commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England
- space age
- the age beginning with the first space travel; from 1957 to the present
- March equinox
- March 21
- entr'acte
- the interlude between two acts of a play
- age of consent
- the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
- deathbed
- the last few hours before death
- field day
- (military) a day for military exercises and display
- washday
- a day set aside for doing household laundry
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