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prime time en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Showing or broadcasting during prime time.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
primetime alternative lexicographic
prymtyme alternative, archaic lexicographic
prime-time alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

ready for prime time

prime time en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
    • The station is moving the new comedy to a prime time slot next month.
  2. (uncountable) The busiest or most important period.
    • 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. 2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times:
    • Summer is prime time for road construction.
  3. (figuratively, uncountable) Maturity; the state at which a person or product will be accepted by the mainstream.
    • 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. 2005, Leanna Stiefel, Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research, Eye On Education, →ISBN, page 13:
    • It took years longer than proponents had hoped, but wireless data is ready for prime time. 2000, Ira Brodsky, Network World, page 18:
    • Now, as more and more businesses re-orient themselves to serve the consumer, ethnography has entered prime time. 2007, John E. Richardson, Annual Editions: Marketing 08/09, →ISBN:
    • And as with commodity-based models, tour-based models have also not yet reached prime time. 2008, J. Richard Kuzmyak, Forecasting Metropolitan Commercial and Freight Travel, Transportation Research Board, →ISBN, page 3:
  4. (obsolete, uncountable) Spring.
  5. (obsolete, uncountable) A new period or time of youthfulness; the beginning of something.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
primetime alternative lexicographic
prime-time alternative lexicographic
prymtyme alternative, archaic lexicographic

Translations (37)

fr heure de plus grande écoute (block of television programming) · hu főműsoridő (block of television programming) · ja ゴールデンタイム (block of television programming) · sv bästa sändningstid (block of television programming) · ko 황금 시간대 (block of television programming) · ga príomh-am (block of television programming) · ms waktu perdana (block of television programming) · ja プライムタイム (block of television programming) · gl horario estelar (block of television programming) · ru прайм-та́йм (block of television programming) · es horario estelar (block of television programming) · ms masa prima (block of television programming) · ko 골든 타임 (block of television programming) · gl horario de máxima audiencia (block of television programming) · cmn 黃金時段 /黄金时段 (block of television programming) · ms masa perdana (block of television programming) · de Hauptsendezeit (block of television programming) · he שְׁעַת הַשִּׁיא (block of television programming) · ca hora punta (block of television programming) · es horario de máxima audiencia (block of television programming) · fi paras kuunteluaika (block of television programming) · de Prime Time (block of television programming) · cmn 黃金時間 /黄金时间 (block of television programming) · fi paras katseluaika (block of television programming) · pt horário nobre (block of television programming) · pl prime time (block of television programming) · fr première partie de soirée (block of television programming) · es horario central (block of television programming) · gl horario central (block of television programming) · ms waktu prima (block of television programming) · ko 프라임 타임 (block of television programming) · ru лу́чшее эфи́рное вре́мя (block of television programming) · mk ударно време (block of television programming) · it prima serata (block of television programming) · ga príomh-am sceidil (block of television programming) · he זְמַן שִׂיא (block of television programming) · uk прайм-та́йм (block of television programming)