EVEN AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even as mean? 

• EVEN AS (adverb)
  The adverb EVEN AS has 1 sense:

1. at the same time as

  Familiarity information: EVEN AS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN AS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the same time as

Synonyms:

even as; just as

Context example:

the building collapsed just as he arrived

 Context examples 

Then arose in her the impulse to lean against him, to rest herself against his strength—a vague, half-formed impulse, which, even as she considered it, mastered her and made her lean toward him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At Brighton she will be of less importance even as a common flirt than she has been here.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Mr. Utterson, sir, asking to see you,” he called; and even as he did so, once more violently signed to the lawyer to give ear.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It's also thought to be among the most stable, not gaining or losing mass even as ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland shrink.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

Then will the soldier white men come and get you, and even as they took Yamikan will they take you across the salt lake to the white man's land.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She was but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already begun to whiten, even as mine has.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward's words were speedily justified, for even as he spoke the two knights met in the centre of the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We staggered through the brushwood, and even as we reached the trees the harpies were on us again.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the elder leader was wise, very wise, in love even as in battle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)