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Princeton's WordNet

  1. day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar daynoun

    time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

    "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"

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  1. twenty-four hours

    Twenty-four hours, often referred to as one day, is the time period it approximately takes for the Earth to complete one full rotation on its axis. This period is universally divided into daytime and nighttime based on the geographical placement and its exposure to the sun. Apart from the astronomical context, it's also a common unit of time measurement comprising of 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twenty-four hours in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twenty-four hours in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of twenty-four hours in a Sentence

  1. Grace Murray Hopper:

    I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.

  2. Thomas Arnold Bennett:

    You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

  3. Chuck Schumer:

    President Trump tried to squirm away from what he said yesterday, it’s twenty-four hours too late, and in the wrong place.

  4. Bikram Choudhury:

    How can I share my heart, my spirit? Twenty-four hours a day, I work harder than any other human being. And this is the reward? I'm a rapist? shame on your culture, Western culture. Shame, shame. Your job (is) to go and tell the world the truth.

  5. Marisa Lankester:

    I never understood why it was illegal in the first place, it kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever.


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