THESAURUS
day
International Date Line, Platonic year, abundant year, academic year, aeon, age, annum, annus magnus, antedate, bissextile year, broad
day, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, cycle, cycle of indiction, date, date line, datemark, dawn,
day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dusk, epoch, era, fateful moment, fiscal year, fortnight, full sun, generation, great year, green flash, heyday, hour, indiction, instant, interval, juncture, kairos, leap year, lifetime, light, light of
day, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, midday sun, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, moment of truth, month, moon, noonlight, noontide light, period, point, point of time, postdate, pregnant moment, prime, psychological moment, quarter, quinquennium, ray of sunshine, regular year, season, second, semester, session, shine, sidereal year, solar year, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, sun, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunshine, term, time, time lag, trimester, twelvemonth, twilight, week, weekday, while, year
ROGET THESAURUS
day
Period
N
period, age, era, second, minute, hour,
day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation, epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon, century, millennium, annus magnus, horary, hourly, annual.
The Present Time
N
the present, the present time, the present
day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion, the times, the existing time, the time being, today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century, nonce, crisis, epoch,
day, hour, age, time of life, present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is, present-
day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment, at this time, at this moment, at the present time, now, at present, at hand, at this time of
day, today, nowadays, already, even now, but now, just now, on the present occasion, for the time being, for the nonce, pro hac vice, on the nail, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, until now, to this
day, to the present
day, the present hour alone is man's.
Light
N
light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora,
day, sunshine, light of
day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as
day, bright as
day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a
day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.