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Daytime vs Today - What's the difference?

daytime | today |

As nouns the difference between daytime and today

is that daytime is the time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset while today is a current day or date.

As an adjective daytime

is pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.

As an adverb today is

on the current day or date.

daytime

English

Alternative forms

* day-time

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.
  • Synonyms

    * day

    Antonyms

    * night * nighttime

    Derived terms

    * daytimes

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.
  • Happening during the day.
  • daytime television

    Synonyms

    * (pertaining to daytime ): day * (happening during the day ): day

    Antonyms

    * (pertaining to daytime ): evening, night, nighttime * (happening during the day ): evening, night, nighttime

    Anagrams

    *

    today

    English

    Alternative forms

    * to-day (archaic)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the current day or date.
  • In the current era; nowadays.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers Engineers of a different kind] , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A current day or date.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
  • , title= , passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today  / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}

    Synonyms

    * current day * this day

    Usage notes

    Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are (these days) and (nowadays).

    See also

    * nowadays * hodiernal * yesterday * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian