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Definition of Meantime
1. Noun. The time between one event, process, or period and another. "Meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
Generic synonyms: Interval, Time Interval
Specialized synonyms: Interregnum
2. Adverb. During the intervening time. "In the meantime the police were notified"
Definition of Meantime
1. n. The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
2. adv. In the intervening time; during the interval.
Definition of Meantime
1. Noun. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between. ¹
2. Adverb. during the interval; meanwhile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meantime
1. the intervening time [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meantime
Literary usage of Meantime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... in the meantime, he quivered under the effluvium of an immense love, a supreme
and universal tenderness, as if the heart of all humanity were throbbing ..."