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this meantime

this meantime is the nonstandard form of in the meantime.

Meaning of in the meantime

Prepositional phrase

  1. Meanwhile.
    • "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 101

Forms of this meantime

alternative formthis mean time

Questions about this meantime

What is this meantime the nonstandard form of?
This meantime is the nonstandard form of in the meantime.

Words near this meantime in the dictionary

  1. this is where we came in
  2. this is why we can't have nice things
  3. this just in
  4. this mean time
  5. this means war
  6. this meantime
  7. this minute
  8. this morning
  9. this much
  10. this one
  11. this or that

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Adapted from Wiktionary: this meantime (page history and authors); in the meantime (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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