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See also:Appendix:Variations of "time"

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    FromMiddle Englishtyme,time, fromOld Englishtīma(time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity), fromProto-West Germanic*tīmō, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô(time), fromProto-Indo-European*deh₂imō, fromProto-Indo-European*deh₂y-(to divide). Related totide. Not related toLatintempus.

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    Noun

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    time (countable anduncountable,pluraltimes)

    1. (uncountable) Theinevitableprogression into thefuture with the passing ofpresent andpast events.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:time
      Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow oftime
      • 1937,Delmore Schwartz,Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day[2]:
        Time is the fire in which we burn.
      • 2023 May 26,Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 0:40 from the start, inZelenskyy surprises the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremony[3],MSNBC, archived fromthe original on26 May 2023:
        One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not wastetime. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes thattime is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, buttime.Time. The very flow oftime convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter oftime. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question oftime. Thetime of your life is under your control. Thetime of life of our force on the front line, thetime of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to wastetime. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like.
      1. (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
        Time flies when you're having fun.
      2. (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension ofspacetime with the opposite metric signature tospace dimensions; thefourth dimension.
        Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel throughtime.
      3. (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law ofthermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasingentropy.
        Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
      4. (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
        An essential definition oftime should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
    2. Aduration of time.
      1. (uncountable) A quantity of availability ofduration.
        Moretime is needed to complete the project.
        You had plenty oftime, but you waited until the last minute.
        Are you finished yet?Time’s up!
        • 1661,John Fell,The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond[4],London, page 7:
          During the wholetime of his abode in the Univerſity he generally ſpent 13 hours of the day in Study ;[]
        • 2021,Lisa Miller, chapter 2, inThe Awakened Brain,→ISBN, page37:
          The teacher greeted us and moved methodically through the room, placing an object on each student's desk. It was a thin book―a spiral-bound planner. She strode to the front of the room. "If you want to succeed," she said, her syllables clear and careful, "you must learn to manage yourtime."
      2. (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
        a longtime
        Record the individualtimes for the processes in each batch.
        Only your besttime is compared with the other competitors.
        The algorithm runs in O(n2)time.
      3. (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
        The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hardtime.
        He is not living at home because he is doingtime.
      4. (countable) An experience.
        We had a wonderfultime at the party.
      5. (countable) Anera; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
        Romantimes
        thetime of the dinosaurs
        That’s the way things were in thosetimes.
      6. (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
        In mytime, we respected our elders.
      7. (only in singular, sports and figuratively)Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
    3. Aninstant of time.
      1. (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
        Excuse me, have you got thetime?
        Whattime is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?
        A computer keepstime using a clock battery.
        They will be asleep by thistime,don'tcha think?
      2. (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
        it’stime for (you to go to) bed;  it’stime to sleep;  we must wait for the righttime;  it'stime we were going
      3. (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
        At whattimes do the trains arrive?
        Thesetimes were erroneously converted between zones
      4. (countable) Aninstance oroccurrence.
        Synonyms:instant,juncture;see alsoThesaurus:point in time
        one moretime
        When was the lasttime we went out? I don’t remember.
        See you anothertime.
        That’s threetimes he’s made the same mistake.
        Okay, but this is the lasttime. No more after that!
      5. (UK, in public houses)Closing time.
        Last call: it's almosttime.
      6. The hour ofchildbirth.
      7. (with possessives) The end of someone’s life,conceived by the speaker as having beenpredestined.
        It washis time.
    4. (countable) Themeasurement under somesystem ofregion ofday ormoment.
      Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on differenttime.
    5. (countable) Aratio ofcomparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
      Your car runs threetimes faster than mine.
      That is fourtimes as heavy as this.
      • 1980, James Chan, “Modern Manufacturing Industries in Kuangtung”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors,China: Urbanization and National Development[6],→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page220:
        Canton is the regional primate city of Kuangtung. Its population of three million is tentimes that of the second largest city, Shant'ou.
    6. (music, uncountable) Themeasuredduration ofsounds.
      (dated)dancetime;   marchtime(see usage notes)
      1. (uncountable)Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
        The musician keeps goodtime.
      2. (uncountable)Rhythmicaldivision,meter.
        common or tripletime;  time signature
      3. (jazz)(uncountable) Astraight rhythmicpattern, free fromfills,breaks and otherembellishments.
        After the introduction, the drummer is to playtime.
    7. (grammar, obsolete)Synonym oftense
      thetime of a verb
      • 1823, Lindley Murray,Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray’s English Grammar, Fortland, page53f:
        Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which thetime of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined;[]
      • 1829, Benjamin A. Gould,Adam’s Latin Grammar,Boston, page153:
        The participles of the futuretime active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verbesse, were sometimes used as indeclinable;[]
    8. (slang, MLE)Clipping ofalongtime.
      • 2019 September 15, “Wiley Flow” (track 12), inHeavy Is The Head[7], performed byStormzy:
        I used to pay for things but that wastime ago.
      • 2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:38:33 from the start, in Brady Hood, director,Top Boy(Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by girl called B:
        Ats' mum is looking for him, says he ain't been back intime
      • 2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director,Bad Education(Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham):
        INCHEZ:Man this is long! We've been in here fortime!
      Synonyms:ages,long

    Usage notes

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    • For the number of occurrences and the ratio of comparison,once andtwice are typically used instead ofone time andtwo times.Thrice is uncommon in American English and British English but is still common in Asian English, for example in India, Singapore, and Malaysia.[1]
    • (music): The distinction betweentime as tempo (noun sense 6.1) andtime as meter (noun sense 6.2) is relatively modern. The dated expression "march time" refers equally to the tempo of a march as it does to the use of 2/4 or 4/4 meter.
    • Ratio usage with comparatives, such as "you earn three times more than me", though common, is strictly illogical. More correctly: "you earn three times as much as me".

    Hyponyms

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    Hyponyms oftime (proper names)
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    some of these may be hyponyms

    Collocations

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    Typical collocations withtime or time expressions.

    • spend - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
    - Wespent a longtime driving along the motorway.
    - I'vespent most of my life working here. (Time expression)
    • take - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
    - Ittook a longtime to get to the front of the queue. See also -take one's time
    - It onlytakes five minutes to get to the shop from here. (Time expression)
    - How long does ittake to do that? (Time expression)

    Descendants

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    Translations

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    Seetime/translations § Noun.

    Verb

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    time (third-person singular simple presenttimes,present participletiming,simple past and past participletimed)

    1. (transitive) Tomeasure orrecord the time,duration, or rate of something.
      I used a stopwatch totime myself running around the block.
    2. (transitive) Tochoose when somethingcommences or itsduration.
      The Presidenttimed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
      The bomb wastimed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
      • 1625,Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, inThe Essayes [], 3rd edition, London: [] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret,→OCLC:
        There is surely no greater wisdom than well totime the beginnings and onsets of things.
      • 2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn't Dark Enough”, inTIME[8]:
        The human body uses light to correctlytime myriad processes, ensuring that liver enzymes are made on schedule, hair cells divide at the right time, and blood pressure stays at a healthy level.
    3. (obsolete) Tokeep orbeat time; toproceed ormove in time.
    4. (obsolete) To pass time; todelay.
    5. Toregulate as to time; toaccompany, oragree with, in time ofmovement.
    6. Tomeasure, as inmusic orharmony.

    Synonyms

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    • (to measure time):clock
    • (to choose the time for):set

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    Translations

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    to measure time
    to choose the time for
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    Interjection

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    time

    1. (tennis)Reminder by theumpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
    2. The umpire's call inprizefights, etc.
    3. A call by abartender to warnpatrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
      Time gentlemen please!

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    References

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    1. ^James Lambert, 2012, 'Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis'World Englishes Vol. 31, issue 1, page 112-127.[1]

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    Danish

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    Etymology 1

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    FromOld Norsetími, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô(time), cognate withSwedishtimme,Englishtime. FromProto-Indo-European*deh₂y-, specificallyProto-Indo-European*deh₂imō. The Germanic noun*tīdiz(time) is derived from the same root.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈtiːmə/,[ˈtˢiːmə],[ˈtsʰiːm̩]

    Noun

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    time c (singular definitetimen,plural indefinitetimer)

    1. hour
    2. lesson,class
    Declension
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    Declension oftime
    common
    gender
    singularplural
    indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
    nominativetimetimentimertimerne
    genitivetimestimenstimerstimernes

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    Etymology 2

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    Borrowed fromEnglishtime.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /tajmə/,[ˈtˢɑjmə],(imperative)IPA(key): /tajˀm/,[ˈtˢɑjˀm]

    Verb

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    time (past tensetimede,past participletimet)

    1. totime
    Conjugation
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    Conjugation oftime
    activepassive
    presenttimertimes
    pasttimedetimedes
    infinitivetimetimes
    imperativetime
    participle
    present-
    pasttimet
    (auxiliary verbhave)
    gerund

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    Esperanto

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    Etymology

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    Fromtim- +‎-e.

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    Adverb

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    time

    1. fearfully

    Latin

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    Verb

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    timē

    1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative oftimeō

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    • time”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Noun

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    time

    1. alternative form oftyme(time)

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    Noun

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    time

    1. alternative form oftyme(thyme)

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    NorwegianWikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    FromOld Norsetími, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô(time), fromProto-Indo-European*deh₂y-, specificallyProto-Indo-European*deh₂imō.

    Noun

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    time m (definite singulartimen,indefinite pluraltimer,definite pluraltimene)

    1. anhour
      Det tar firetimer å kjøre dit.
      It takes fourhours to drive there.
    2. alesson,class
      Entime på skolen kan vare i 45 minutter.
      Alesson in school may last 45 minutes.
    3. anappointment
      Jeg har en time hos tannlegen.I have anappointment at the dentists.

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Norwegian NynorskWikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    FromOld Norsetími, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô(time), fromProto-Indo-European*deh₂imō, from*deh₂y-(to share, divide). Akin toEnglishtime.

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    Noun

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    time m (definite singulartimen,indefinite pluraltimar,definite pluraltimane)

    1. anhour
    2. alesson,class
    3. anappointment
      Eg har eintime hjå tannlegen.I have anappointment at the dentists.
    4. time,moment (mainly poetic)
      • 1945,Jakob Sande,Da Daniel drog:
        No ertimen komen, Daniel!
        Now thetime has come, Daniel!

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    Old Swedish

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    Etymology

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    FromOld Norsetími, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô.

    Noun

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    tīme m

    1. time
    2. hour
    3. occasion

    Declension

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    Declension oftīme (weakan-stem)
    masculinesingularplural
    indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
    nominativetīmetīmentīmartīmarnir
    accusativetīmatīmantīmatīmana
    dativetīmatīmanomtīmomtīmonom
    genitivetīmatīmanstīmatīmanna

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishteam.

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    time m (pluraltimes,augmentativetimão)

    1. (Brazil, chiefly sports) ateam
      Synonyms:(Portugal)equipa,(Brazil)equipe
    2. (Brazil, corporate slang, proscribed) a corporate team
      Synonym:equipe
    3. (Brazil, informal)sexual orientation

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    Scots

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    Noun

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    time (pluraltimes)

    1. time

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Pronoun

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    tíme ? (Cyrillic spellingти́ме)

    1. masculine/neuterinstrumentalsingular oftȃj

    Spanish

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈtime/[ˈt̪i.me]
    • Rhymes:-ime
    • Syllabification:ti‧me

    Verb

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    time

    1. inflection oftimar:
      1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
      2. third-personsingularimperative
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