prime time
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
Uncountable
noun
Maturity; the state at which a person or product will be accepted by the mainstream.
Uncountable
adj
Showing or broadcasting during prime time.
Example Sentences
- "The station is moving the new comedy to a prime time slot next month."
- "Summer is prime time for road construction."
- "Mass-produced mithai are readily available online, but these five independent shops make their sweets by hand every day, offering their local South Asian communities a taste of the familiar. Diwali is their prime time."
- "It took years longer than proponents had hoped, but wireless data is ready for prime time."
- "Can these measures be regarded as useful, promising, or not ready for prime time? We focus only on the utility of these measures for use by policymakers."
- "Now, as more and more businesses re-orient themselves to serve the consumer, ethnography has entered prime time."