time of day vs rush hour

rush hour vs time of day

time of day and rush hour both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
time of day	Yes	No	No	No
rush hour	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rush hour is a hyponym of time of day; that is, rush hour is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than time of day:

time of day: clock time
rush hour: the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work; the time of the day when the movement of people from one place to another is at its highest

Other hyponyms of time of day include high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, mealtime, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, bedtime, closing time, aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup, early-morning hour, sundown, sunset, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, none, happy hour, zero hour, canonical hour.

time of day (noun)	rush hour (noun)
clock time	the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work; the time of the day when the movement of people from one place to another is at its highest

Difference between time of day and rush hour

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