Whiles
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /(h)waɪlz/ · Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Whiles is an adverb meaning plural of while.
Meaning
plural of while.
More Meanings
- third-person singular simple present indicative of while
- (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
- (archaic or Scotland) meanwhile
- (archaic or dialect) while, whilst
Example Sentences
the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour
Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.
for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include piece, spell, otherwhiles, oftenwhiles, umwhile, oftwhiles.
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