Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The time between one occurrence and another; an interval.
- adv. During a period of intervening time; meanwhile.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- During the interval; in the interval between one specified period and another.
- 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The intervening time.
- adv. In the intervening time; during the interval.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time between one event, process, or period and another
- adv. during the intervening time
Examples
“Wait next year, and in meantime, better look for another job.”
“He has constantly lied to his base and in the meantime is trying for a massive government takeover of the economy while all his actions on economics have done nothing but prolong the recession, devalue the dollar, and raise unemployment.”
“And in the meantime, is there nothing to be done for the illness?”
“Here, meantime, is Boz's column, wherein my esteemed colleague demonstrates how pointless it is to attempt to predict baseball's playoffs.”
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“Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in the meantime is worried that a low turnout in the elections for the European Parliament next week will undermine the credibility of the European Union in general and the parliament in particular.”
“(Dobleman, in the meantime, is telephoning in a low voice.)”
“Rosvet, in the meantime, is monitoring the implementation of the widely advertised government program called “Dorozhnaia karta” (“Road Map”) [ru]:”
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“In the meantime, is all this crap from turdblossom being cataloged somewhere?”
“Al, in the meantime, is clearly suffering badly in a trolling environment that has been dominated in recent weeks by “Ed”.”
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“Hades in the meantime is furious and very frustrated with his lack of progress until he finds the only weakness Hercules has – his love for Meg.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘meantime’.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...
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