Synonyms for time
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tahym |
| Phonetic Transcription : taɪm |
Top 10 synonyms for time Other synonyms for the word time
- allotment
- bit
- bout
- chronology
- clock
- continuance
- duration
- epoch
- eternity
- extent
- go
- heyday
- infinity
- instance
- instant
- interval
- juncture
- lastingness
- life span
- lifetime
- look-in
- many a moon
- moment
- month
- occasion
- opening
- pace
- past
- peak
- point
- present
- season
- second
- shift
- shot
- show
- space
- span
- spell
- squeak
- stage
- stint
- stretch
- tempo
- term
- tide
- tour
- turn
- week
- while
- year
Définition of time
Origin :- Old English tima "limited space of time," from Proto-Germanic *timon "time" (cf. Old Norse timi "time, proper time," Swedish timme "an hour"), from PIE *di-mon-, from root *da- "cut up, divide" (see tide).
- Abstract sense of "time as an indefinite continuous duration" is recorded from late 14c. Personified since at least 1509 as an aged bald man (but with a forelock) carrying a scythe and an hour-glass. In English, a single word encompasses time as "extent" and "point" (French temps/fois, German zeit/mal) as well as "hour" (e.g. "what time is it?" cf. French heure, German Uhr). Extended senses such as "occasion," "the right time," "leisure," or times (v.) "multiplied by" developed in Old and Middle English, probably as a natural outgrowth of phrases like, "He commends her a hundred times to God" (Old French La comande a Deu cent foiz).
- to have a good time ( = a time of enjoyment) was common in Eng. from c 1520 to c 1688; it was app. retained in America, whence readopted in Britain in 19th c. [OED]
- Time of day (now mainly preserved in negation, i.e. what someone won't give you if he doesn't like you) was a popular 17c. salutation (e.g. "Good time of day vnto your Royall Grace," "Richard III," I.iii.18). Times as the name of a newspaper dates from 1788. Time warp first attested 1954; time capsule first recorded 1938, in reference to New York World's Fair; time-traveling in the science fiction sense first recorded 1895 in H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." To do time "serve a prison sentence" is from 1865. Time frame is attested by 1964; time line (also timeline) by 1890; time-limit is from 1880. About time, ironically for "long past due time," is recorded from 1920. Behind the times "old-fashioned" is recorded from 1846, first attested in Dickens.
- noun temporal length of event or entity's existence, period
- noun opportunity
- A second and a third time the Ethiopian touched him with his wand, and spoke in whispers.
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- There was no time barren enough of sensation to reason about it.
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- The old man read it and for a time mused himself into seeming oblivion.
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- She certainly knew he was liable to go at any time, in exactly the way he did go.
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- Oh, I was an Indian in my time—a reg'ler measly hop-pickin' Siwash at that.
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- No one knows what that man suffers; it makes him gloomy all the time about everything.
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- And he had hoped so cheerfully all the time to do something.
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- And the third time I said, 'Behold the winged separates from that which hath no wings.'
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- For some time after the interview with his father, Paralus remained very wakeful.
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- "I think it's just awful—at his time of life, too," said Mrs. Bines.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
Antonyms for time
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