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times

UK/taɪmz/

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Australia/tɑemz/

times noun: the circumstances of a certain time. Also the plural of time.

Noun

times

  1. (plural, plural-only) The circumstances of a certain time.
    • Modern times are so very different from the past.
    • The concept has existed since times unknown.
  2. (plural, plural-only) A person's experiences or biography.
    • The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

Preposition

times

  1. Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time').
    • Four times five is/are twenty
    • One times one is one.

Verb

times (third-person singular simple present timeses, present participle timesing, simple past and past participle timesed)

  1. (informal) To multiply.
    • I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which ^([sic]) the answer was 2460 calories...1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum
    • A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10' […]1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53

Proper noun capitalized: Times

Times

  1. A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.
    • Mr. Campion seated himself in the client’s chair and crossed his long legs. His hat, his gloves and his folded Times newspaper he held upon his knee.1963, Margery Allingham, “Off the Record”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 73
    • From there, the meme will slowly leak into more popular mainstream-right punditry, and then into the Republican Party, until Ted Cruz sweatily asks a judicial nominee if they “support the current thing” and the Times writes some stilted, breathless article about the meme as disinformation.2022 May 9, Max Read, “What Is “The Current Thing”?”, in Slate
  2. A surname.

Also used as

times is also the plural of time.

times is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of time.

times meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

times in Tamil

நேரங்கள், காலங்கள்

times in Marathi

वेळा

times in Urdu

ٹائمز

times in Telugu

సమయాలు
More languagesFewer languages
times in Malayalam
സമയങ്ങൾ, കാലങ്ങൾ
times in Kannada
ಸಮಯಗಳು, ಕಾಲಗಳು
times in Punjabi
ਟਾਈਮਜ਼
times in Odia
ସମଯ଼ଗୁଡ଼ିକ
times in Nepali
समयहरू
times in Tagalog
maka, paramihin ng
times in Arabic
فِي fī
times in Malay
darab, kali
times in Indonesian
kali
times in Thai
คูณ kuun
times in Vietnamese
nhân

Examples of times in a sentence

  • The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).1976, Jan Fontein, Wu Tang, “Eastern Han Tomb near Holingol, Inner Mongolia”, in Han and T’ang Murals discovered in tombs in the People's...
  • Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
  • Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2:
  • […] when the denominator was timesed by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.1998, W. M. Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 31:

All 40 example sentences with times

Forms of times

third-person singular presenttimeses
present participletimesing
past participletimesed
pasttimesed

Origin of times

Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.

From times.

Words formed from times

Phrases with times

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Words that rhyme with times

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Questions about times

What does times mean?
Times means the circumstances of a certain time.
What is times in Tamil?
Times in Tamil is நேரங்கள், காலங்கள். See Times meaning in Tamil.
How do you use times in a sentence?
The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).
What part of speech is times?
Times can be a noun, a preposition, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce times?
Times is pronounced /taɪmz/ (UK).

Words near times in the dictionary

  1. Timerio
  2. timerities
  3. timerity
  4. timerous
  5. timers
  6. times
  7. times and often
  8. times copies
  9. times immemorial
  10. times in
  11. times in the sun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: times (page history and authors); Times (page history and authors); times (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); times (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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