in the meantime
in the meantime prepositional phrase: meanwhile.
Prepositional phrase
- Meanwhile.
- "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 101
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- for the meantime, in meantime, this meantime
in the meantime meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit
in the meantime in Tamil
- இதற்கிடையில்
in the meantime in Sanskrit
- in the meantime, now and then
- अन्तरा antarā́
Synonyms of in the meantime
Forms of in the meantime
| alternative form | in the mean time |
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Questions about in the meantime
- What does in the meantime mean?
- In the meantime means meanwhile.
- What is in the meantime in Tamil?
- In the meantime in Tamil is இதற்கிடையில். See In the meantime meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is in the meantime?
- In the meantime is a prepositional phrase.
Words near in the meantime in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the meantime (page history and authors); in the meantime (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अन्तरा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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