day night
Sun then moon
Day night describes a continuous period spanning both daylight and darkness hours, or the full cycle of a single rotation.
Sports events use it for doubleheaders where one game is played in afternoon and another after dark: We've got tickets to the day night at Fenway.
The phrase emphasizes duration or completeness: She worked day night to finish the project.
- dawnDay's first glow
- crack of dawnEarliest morning light
- duskDimming after sundown
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
morning · early bird · evening · noon · hours · darkness · light · cycle · sleep · wake · shadow · sun · moon · stars · 24 · shift · routine · dreams
day nighteternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · constant · unchanging · midnight sun · polar night
day nightuniformity
State of being identical
monotony · sameness · unvarying · continuous
day nightoccasionally
At infrequent intervals
sometimes · intermittently · sporadically · rarely · infrequently
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