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at the same time

at the same time prepositional phrase: at the same instant.

Prepositional phrase

  1. At the same instant.
    • Their departures were at the same time.
    • They departed at the same time.
  2. Overlapping or coinciding in duration.
    • I'm working. But at the same time, I'm exercising too.
    • His service as chairman was at the same time as his board membership
  3. (sentence adverb) On the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint).

at the same time meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

at the same time in Hindi

overlapping in duration
एक बार में ek bār mẽ, उसी वक़्त usī vaqt

at the same time in Tamil

அதே சமயம்

at the same time in Urdu

overlapping in duration
ایک بار میں ek bār mẽ

at the same time in Telugu

overlapping in duration
ఒకేసారి okēsāri
More languagesFewer languages
at the same time in Malayalam
ഒരേ സമയത്ത്, ഒപ്പം, ഒരേ കാലത്ത്, അതേസമയം
at the same time in Sanskrit
साकम् sākam
at the same time in Arabic
فِي نَفْس اَلْوَقْت fī nafs al-waqt

Examples of at the same time in a sentence

  • I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker]...
  • At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

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Questions about at the same time

What does at the same time mean?
At the same time means at the same instant.
What is at the same time in Hindi?
At the same time in Hindi is एक बार में (ek bār mẽ), उसी वक़्त (usī vaqt). See At the same time meaning in Hindi.
How do you use at the same time in a sentence?
I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands.
What part of speech is at the same time?
At the same time is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at the same time in the dictionary

  1. at the point of
  2. at the races
  3. at the ready
  4. at the receiving end
  5. at the risk of
  6. at the same time
  7. at the sight of
  8. at the soonest
  9. at the tail
  10. at the time
  11. at the top of one's bent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at the same time (page history and authors); at the same time (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); at the same time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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