LEISURE TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leisure time mean? 

• LEISURE TIME (noun)
  The noun LEISURE TIME has 1 sense:

1. time available for ease and relaxation

  Familiarity information: LEISURE TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEISURE TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time available for ease and relaxation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

leisure; leisure time

Context example:

his job left him little leisure

Hypernyms ("leisure time" is a kind of...):

time off (a time period when you are not required to work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leisure time"):

free time; spare time (time that is free from duties or responsibilities)

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

playday; playtime (time for play or diversion)

 Context examples 

Did John ever neglect you, as you call it, while you made it a point to give him your society of an evening, his only leisure time?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A question about whether an individual limits or was limited in pursuing their hobbies or leisure time activities.

(Limited in Pursuing Hobbies or Leisure Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

In this house, and with this family, I passed my leisure time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While the visit at the Doctor's was still in progress, I observed that the postman brought two or three letters every morning for Uriah Heep, who remained at Highgate until the rest went back, it being a leisure time; and that these were always directed in a business-like manner by Mr. Micawber, who now assumed a round legal hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It ran thus: My best regards to Mr. Thomas Traddles, and if he should still remember one who formerly had the happiness of being well acquainted with him, may I beg a few moments of his leisure time?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)