ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Passtime

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Passtime is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of pastime.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of pastime.

Example Sentences

Some engage in bee culture for the pleasure it affords them as a passtime; others as a means of furnishing their own tables with one of natures richest luxuries, while others engage in it as an occupation for the dollars and cents that may realize from it.
You will by this time think I am in love with her; so before I go any further I will tell you I am not — she kept me awake one Night as a tune of Mozart's might do — I speak of the thing as a passtime and an amuzement than which I can feel none deeper than a conversation with an imperial woman the very ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of whose Lips is to me a Banquet.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pass-time, kill-time, pastance, entertaine, passymeasure, sport.

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