English Explanatory Dictionary

time

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
  2. The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
  3. A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
  4. Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
  5. The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
  6. A duration of time.
  7. A quantity of availability of duration.
  8. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
  9. The serving of a prison sentence.
  10. An experience.
  11. An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
  12. A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
verb
  1. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
  2. To choose when something commences or its duration.
  3. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  4. To pass time; to delay.
  5. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  6. To measure, as in music or harmony.
intj
  1. Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
  2. The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
  3. A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

Pronunciation

tīm /taɪm/ [tʰaɪ̯m] En-us-time.ogg /tɑɪm/ [tʰɑe̯m] /təɪm/ /tʌɪm/ [təi̯m]

Word forms

time times tyme timing timed

Etymology

From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).

Synonyms

time instant juncture minute moment occasion point in time sith tense ages long set clock

Related words

period day week month year era geological period season spring summer autumn winter morning evening frequency often rarely age young old speed speedy slow early late the past the present the future beginning end event action activity process history before after sooner later calendar music tempo timepiece time zone tense conjugation microsecond millisecond second minute hour unit of measure :Category:en:Time Appendix:Time Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 106. Time Sabbath

Derived words

4/4 time about time active time battle additional time administration of the fulness of times adverbial of time aforetime aftertime against time a-h conduction time ahead of one's time ahead of time all in good time all the time all-time a long time coming ancient times anight a-nightertime antitime anytime any time any time now any time soon army time arrow of time as old as time itself as time goes by as times go a stitch in time saves nine at all times at a time at church every time the doors are open at church every time the doors swing open at no time at odd times at one time at one time or another at that time at the best of times at the same time at the time at this moment in time at this point in time at times at times and again autumntime backtime bairn-time beamtime beat someone's time beat time before someone's time before the ink had time to dry beforetime before times behind its time behind the times behind time betime

Translations

Abaza: гӏамта Abaza: заман Abkhaz: аамҭа Afrikaans: tyd Albanian: kohë Northern Altai: шак Southern Altai: ӧй Southern Altai: саман Southern Altai: чак Ambonese Malay: oras Amharic: ጊዜ Amharic: ዘመን Arabic: زَمَان Arabic: زَمَن Arabic: وَقْت Arabic: دَهْر Arabic: وقت Arabic: وكت Arabic: زمان Arabic: عَصْر Arabic: إِبَّان Chadian Arabic: وكت Aragonese: tiempo Aramaic: ܙܒܢܐ Aramaic: זמנא Aramaic: זבנא Lishana Deni: שאתא Mandaic: ࡆࡀࡌࡀࡍ Armenian: ժամանակ Armenian: ժամ Aromanian: chiro Assamese: সময় Assamese: পৰ Asturian: tiempu Avar: гӏуж Avar: заман Avar: мех Awadhi: समय Aymara: pacha Azerbaijani: vaxt Azerbaijani: zaman Azerbaijani: zəmanə Azerbaijani: əyyam Azerbaijani: dövr Baluchi: وہد Bashkir: ваҡыт Bashkir: заман Basque: denbora Belarusian: час Bengali: সময় Bengali: ওয়াক্ত Bengali: জমানা Bengali: কাল Bengali: বেলা Bhojpuri: समय Bislama: taem Breton: amzer Buginese: wattu Bulgarian: вре́ме Bulgarian: времена Burmese: အချိန် Buryat: саг Carpathian Rusyn: час Catalan: temps Catalan: època Catalan: era Catalan: mes Catalan: estació Catalan: dia Catalan: hora Chechen: хан Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏱᎵᏒ Cherokee: ᎠᏟᎢᎵᏒ Chichewa: nthawi Chinese Cantonese: 時間 /时间 Chinese Cantonese: 時光 /时光 Chinese Cantonese: 時候 /时候
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