Time
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /taɪm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Time is a noun meaning (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Meaning
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
More Meanings
- A duration of time.
- An instant of time.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (grammar, obsolete) Synonym of tense
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
Example Sentences
Time is the fire in which we burn.
That is four times as heavy as this.
Your car runs three times faster than mine.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
Word Forms
- times
- timing
- timed
Synonyms for time
Depending on context, synonyms include clock, set, tense, long, clip, meter.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clock, meter, clip, sentence, space-time, momentum.
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