NNTEMP Temporal nouns
Definition
Nouns denoting time concepts (e.g., day, hour, week, year).
Detection Rules
xiao_2009
usas
cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN|NNS"]
Word list (274 items)
*-month
24-hour
5-day
Ammonite
August/September/October
Aztec
Aztecs
Baroque
Conquistadors
Countdown
Decembers
ETA
Edwardian
Eves
FY
FY00
FY01
FY02
FY07
FY0l
FY2000
FY2002
FY96
FY97
FY98
FY99
Fridays
Georgian
Halloween
Mondays
Sabbath
Saturdays
Sundays
Thursdays
Tuesdays
Victoriana
Victorians
Viking
Vikings
Wednesdays
Yuletide
aeon
afternoon
ages
all-nighter
almanac
annal
annals
anniversary
annum
antediluvian
anytime
appointment
autumn
autumn-spring
back-timing
backburner
background
bedtime
biding
birthdate
birthday
boyhood
breakfast-time
brevity
bridging
briefness
brink
calender
catch-up
caveman
cavemen
centuries
century
childhood
chronology
contemporaries
contemporary
dalliance
date
dawn
day
daybreak
days
daytime
deadline
decade
duration
dusk
early-morning
ephemera
epoch
era
eve
even
evening
first-half
flexi-leave
flexi-time
flexitime
fortnight
fortune-teller
full-timer
fulltime
future
futurism
futurists
generation
half-an-hour
half-hour
half-term
half-time
hallowe'en
historica
history
hour
hour-by-hour
hours
ides
instant
interlude
interregnum
interval
istory
jubilee
juncture
life-time
lifecycles
lifespan
lifetime
long-hours
manana
meantime
mediator
mediators
memorabilia
mid-1960s
mid-1970s
mid-1980s
mid-November
mid-morning
mid-term
mid-week
mid-winter
midday
midnight
midsummer
midweek
milestone
millennia
millennium
millisecond
milliseconds
minute
minutes
mo
modernisation
modernization
modernizations
moment
month
months
morning
museum
museums
nanosecond
neet
newshour
night
night-time
nightfall
nightime
nights
nightshift
nightshifts
nighttime
noon
occasion
offputting
part-timer
part-timers
part-timing
past
period
phase
posterity
postponement
pre-cycling
pre-generation
prehistory
present
procrastinating
procrastination
prophet
prophets
regency
rescheduling
retrospect
rosta
s
sabbatical
season
seasonality
sec
semester
session
shelf-life
shortness
simesta
span
spell
spells
spring-autumn
springtime
stage
stint
stopgap
stopover
summer
summers
summertime
sunrise
sunset
swatch
sync
teatime
teenagership
throw-back
throwback
time
time-frame
time-keeper
time-management
time-out
time-pressure
timeframe
timeline
timer
times
timescale
to-day
today
todays
tomorrow
tomorrows
tonight
triennial
turnaround
turnround
twilight
update
updating
vacation
victorian
viking
wait
waiting
watch
week
week-end
week-ends
weekday
weekend
weeks
while
whistle-stop
whit
winter
wintertime
year
years
yesterdays
yesteryear
yrs
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System