simultaneously
/ˌsɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/US/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/
simultaneously adverb: occurring at the same time.
Adverb
simultaneously (not comparable)
- Occurring at the same time.
- The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29
- Numa was about to charge—there was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a number of things happened, almost simultaneously—the lion sprang from his ambush toward the retreating black—Tarzan cried out in warning—and the black turned just in...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123
simultaneously meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
simultaneously in Hindi
- occurring at the same time
- एक बार में ek bār mẽ
simultaneously in Tamil
- அதே சமயம், ஒரே நேரத்தில், ஒருசேர
simultaneously in Urdu
- occurring at the same time
- ایک بار میں ek bār mẽ
simultaneously in Bengali
- এককালে
More languagesFewer languages
- simultaneously in Telugu
- ఒకేసారి okēsāri
- simultaneously in Malayalam
- ഏകകാലത്ത്, ഏകദാ, അതേ സമയത്ത്, ഒപ്പം
- simultaneously in Odia
- ଏକାଠେଇଁ ekāṭheĩ
- simultaneously in Sanskrit
- साकम् sākam
- simultaneously in Tagalog
- sabay-sabay
- simultaneously in Arabic
- فِي وَقْت وَاحِد fī waqt wāḥid, مَعًا maʕan
- simultaneously in Persian
- همزمان, در آن واحد dar ân-e vâhed
Examples of simultaneously in a sentence
- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]...
- The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
- In Goblet of Fire, Harry jinxes Vincent Crabbe while George Weasley simultaneously hits him with a Jelly-Legs Jinx.2019, The Editors of MuggleNet, The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook, page 115:
Synonyms of simultaneously
- at a time
- at one time
- at the same time
- concomitantly
- concurrently
- contemporaneously
- cotemporally
- during
- in parallel
- together
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Origin of simultaneously
From simultaneous + -ly.
Questions about simultaneously
- What does simultaneously mean?
- Simultaneously means occurring at the same time.
- What is simultaneously in Hindi?
- Simultaneously in Hindi is एक बार में (ek bār mẽ). See Simultaneously meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use simultaneously in a sentence?
- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
- What part of speech is simultaneously?
- Simultaneously is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce simultaneously?
- Simultaneously is pronounced /ˌsɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/ (UK).
Words near simultaneously in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: simultaneously (page history and authors); simultaneously (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); simultaneously (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); simultaneously (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ଏକାଠେଇଁ (Odia) (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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