MEANTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meantime mean? 

• MEANTIME (noun)
  The noun MEANTIME has 1 sense:

1. the time between one event, process, or period and another

  Familiarity information: MEANTIME used as a noun is very rare.

• MEANTIME (adverb)
  The adverb MEANTIME has 1 sense:

1. during the intervening time

  Familiarity information: MEANTIME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEANTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time between one event, process, or period and another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

interim; lag; meantime; meanwhile

Context example:

meanwhile the socialists are running the government

Hypernyms ("meantime" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meantime"):

interregnum (the time between two reigns, governments, etc.)

• MEANTIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

During the intervening time

Synonyms:

in the meantime; meantime; meanwhile

Context example:

in the meantime the police were notified

 Context examples 

In the meantime, Watson, I should be glad if you would ring for an express messenger, for I have a letter to send and it is important that it should go at once.

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

In the meantime we talked and talked, much to the disgust of the hunters, who could not understand a word.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the meantime he toiled on.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the meantime I shall read over some of these documents, and shall be better able to understand certain things.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the meantime the love-master was patting White Fang and talking to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the meantime, I learnt lessons at home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the meantime the fire remained unbuilt, the camp half pitched, and the dogs unfed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Meantime, Uranus and Venus are in Taurus, also bringing happy surprises to you because Taurus is a lovely sign for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the meantime the last of the carriages had come up, and the horses had all been picketed upon the moor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)