pastime
/ˈpæs.taɪm/
pastime noun: something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
Noun
pastime (plural pastimes)
- Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
- Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
- Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people...1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Verb
pastime (third-person singular simple present pastimes, present participle pastiming, simple past and past participle pastimed)
pastime meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pastime in Hindi
- pastime, amusement, diversion
- शग़ल śaġal
- pastime, amusement
- केलि keli
pastime in Tamil
- that which amuses
- பொழுதுபோக்கு poḻutupōkku
pastime in Marathi
- a pastime, kill-time, amusement
- विरंगुळा viraṅguḷā
pastime in Urdu
- کھیل, مشغلہ, شغل
More languagesFewer languages
- pastime in Bengali
- অবসর বিনোদন, শখ
- pastime in Telugu
- కాలక్షేపం, కాలక్షేపము
- pastime in Malayalam
- വിനോദം, നേരമ്പോക്ക്, കളി, ഭൂതകാലം
- pastime in Kannada
- ಹೊತ್ತುಹೋಕೆ, ಹೊತ್ತುಕಳೆತ, ವಿನೋದ, ವಿಹಾರ
- pastime in Sanskrit
- देवना devanā
- pastime in Tagalog
- palipas-oras
- pastime in Persian
- سرگرمی sargarmi
Examples of pastime in a sentence
- In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
- Nor would there be an opportunity for the media's favorite pastime of exposing conflict among his advisors.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 398:
Synonyms of pastime
Forms of pastime
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pastimes |
| alternative form (obsolete) | passtime |
| alternative form (obsolete) | pass-time |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pastimes |
| present participle | pastiming |
| past participle | pastimed |
| past | pastimed |
Origin of pastime
From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.
Words formed from pastime
Questions about pastime
- What does pastime mean?
- Pastime means something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
- What is pastime in Hindi?
- Pastime in Hindi is शग़ल (śaġal), केलि (keli). See Pastime meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pastime in a sentence?
- In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
- What part of speech is pastime?
- Pastime can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pastime?
- Pastime is pronounced /ˈpæs.taɪm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pastime?
- The plural of pastime is pastimes.
Words near pastime in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pastime (page history and authors); केलि (Hindi) (page history and authors); विरंगुळा (Marathi) (page history and authors); pastime (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Pastime (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pastime (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pastime (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pastime (Kannada 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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