Hypernyms for "time"
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                    biological time
                    bit
                    civil time
                    continuance
                    continuum
                    cosmic time
                    day
                    daylight saving
                    daylight savings
                    daylight-saving time
                    daylight-savings time
                    dead
                    duration
                    ephemera
                    eternity
                    future
                    futurity
                    geologic time
                    geological time
                    GMT
                    Greenwich Mean Time
                    Greenwich Time
                    hard time
                    hard times
                    hereafter
                    high time
                    hour
                    incarnation
                    infinity
                    life
                    life sentence
                    local time
                    minute
                    mistime
                    mo
                    moment
                    musical time
                    nowadays
                    occasion
                    past
                    past times
                    patch
                    piece
                    present
                    prime time
                    SCLK
                    second
                    space age
                    spacecraft clock time
                    spell
                    standard time
                    time of day
                    time to come
                    universal time
                    UT
                    UT1
                    wee
                    while
                    yesteryear
            
    What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.