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sands of time

sands of time noun: time that is considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass.

Noun

the sands of time pl (plural only)

  1. (literary, plural, plural-only) Time that is considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass.
    • […] And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time […]1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life. […]”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 7

Words formed from sands of time

Questions about sands of time

What does sands of time mean?
Sands of time means time that is considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass.
What part of speech is sands of time?
Sands of time is a noun.

Words near sands of time in the dictionary

  1. Sandrock
  2. Sandrocks
  3. sandrs
  4. sands
  5. sands down
  6. sands of time
  7. sands off
  8. sandscape
  9. sandscapes
  10. Sandsend
  11. sandshark

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