Word.ws English Dictionary

meanwhile spaces

meanwhile spaces is the plural of meanwhile space.

Meaning of meanwhile space

Noun

meanwhile space (plural meanwhile spaces)

  1. A vacant or underused property that is temporarily occupied for a beneficial use before future redevelopment; spaces used for short-term purposes, such as pop-up shops, art studios, community gardens, or affordable housing, to generate value and support local communities.
    • The past years has seen a fluorescence of meanwhile spaces in cities throughout the UK, particularly in London. Meanwhile spaces are explicitly and intentionally time-limited in nature. A selection of meanwhile space projects in London is used here to stimulate a brief discussion about the place of...2013, Milliken, Sarah, “Meanwhile Spaces”, in ResearchGate
    Synonyms:
    meanwhile site

Questions about meanwhile spaces

What is meanwhile spaces the plural of?
Meanwhile spaces is the plural of meanwhile space.

Words near meanwhile spaces in the dictionary

  1. meanwhile
  2. meanwhile garden
  3. meanwhile site
  4. meanwhile sites
  5. meanwhile space
  6. meanwhile spaces
  7. meanwhile use
  8. meanwhile uses
  9. meanwhiles
  10. meanwhilst
  11. meany

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meanwhile spaces (page history and authors); meanwhile space (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “meanwhile spaces.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/meanwhile_spaces. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.