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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The time between one occurrence and another; an interval.
  2. adv. During a period of intervening time; meanwhile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. During the interval; in the interval between one specified period and another.
  2. n. The interval between one specified period and another: only in the phrase in the meantime, formerly also the meantime: properly two words (in the mean time), conventionally written as one, after the adverb.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
  2. adv. during the interval; meanwhile

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The intervening time.
  2. adv. In the intervening time; during the interval.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the time between one event, process, or period and another
  2. adv. during the intervening time

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, as mean +‎ time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime. (Wiktionary)

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