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meantime

/ˈmiːntaɪm/

meantime noun: the time spent waiting for another event; time in between.

Noun

meantime (countable and uncountable, plural meantimes)

  1. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
    • We'll come back asap; just wait here for the meantime.

Adverb

meantime (not comparable)

  1. During the interval; meanwhile.
    • Repairs will be done tomorrow so meantime restrain from using the bath.
    • Meantime Pope Urban II convoked two councils, one after another.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress

meantime meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

meantime in Tamil

இடை வேலையில், இடைநேரம்

meantime in Urdu

دراثنا

meantime in Bengali

ইতিমধ্যে, মধ্যবর্তী সময়

meantime in Malayalam

തന്മദ്ധ്യേ, അതിനിടയിൽ, ഇടയ്ക്ക്

Examples of meantime in a sentence

  • The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.
  • In the meantime, Tichborne worked himself into a fury about Bahama grass.
  • To date, AI chatbots have had a rather short MtH (meantime to Hitler) score.

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Synonyms of meantime

Forms of meantime

pluralmeantimes
alternative formmean time

Origin of meantime

From Middle English menetime, equivalent to mean + time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime.

Words formed from meantime

Questions about meantime

What does meantime mean?
Meantime means the time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
What is meantime in Tamil?
Meantime in Tamil is இடை வேலையில், இடைநேரம். See Meantime meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meantime?
Meantime can be a noun or an adverb.
How do you pronounce meantime?
Meantime is pronounced /ˈmiːntaɪm/.
What is the plural of meantime?
The plural of meantime is meantimes.

Words near meantime in the dictionary

  1. meant to
  2. meant to be
  3. meant to say
  4. meant well
  5. meantest
  6. meantime
  7. meantimes
  8. meantness
  9. meantone
  10. meantones
  11. meanwhile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meantime (page history and authors); meantime (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meantime (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Meantime (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meantime (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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