Time
Pronunciation of Time
/tˈa͡ɪm/, /tˈaɪm/, /t_ˈaɪ_m/
Synonyms for time:
Sense 1
concurrently, noon, blue moon, deferral, clock in, belatedness, betimes, belatedly, clock off, coincidence, seedtime, present-day, stochastic, serendipity, unlucky, fugacious, coetaneous, currently, vernal, expense, springtime, calendar, serendipitous, fluke, yore, Detainment, tardily, happenstance, punch out, circumstance, far-flung, accidentally, jiffy, contemporaneous, springtide, faraway, postpone, Successional, thrice, yesteryear, coincidentally, postmortem, latter-day, adventitious, sequent, by and by, noonday, push back, twelvemonth, JIFF, defer, hold over, moment.
Sense 2
fleeting, inning, successive, today, coincident, twinkling, tardiness, sequential, removed, former, phase, forenoon, reschedule, punctual, nowadays, coexistent, temporary, slot in, overdue, measurement, anterior, simultaneously, much, beforehand, lately, trice, immediate, simultaneous, hereafter, irregularity, evanescent, yesterday, recent, inopportune, untimely, tardy, contemporary, shift, punch in, new, nominate, frequency, coeval, posthumous, detain, deferment, ultimately, lateness, state, recently, asynchronous, postponement, adjournment, holdup, precocious, bring forward, ephemeral, far-off, momentary, serial, short-lived, rearrange, elapse, prompt, belated, ill-timed, movable feast, newly, passing.
Sense 3
earlier, delay, finally, later, lag, behindhand, latterly, transient, siege, foregoing, antecedent, prior, retardation, fugitive, compress, occasion, put back, subsequent, stagger, put forward, timely, existing, current, succeed, basis, reset, accident, ensue, actually, precedent, existent, twice, put off, next, consecutive, waiver, temporal.
Sense 4
existence, stint, ahead, distant, instantaneous, fleet, point, following, inconvenient, tick, modern, behind, remote, schedule, coming, preceding, timetable, table, irregular, bout.
Sense 5
go back, late, tour, together, previous, vintage, concurrent.
Sense 6
early, space, assign, transitory, serve, spend.
Sense 7
fix.
Sense 8
Sense 9
follow, bit, move, spring, stage.
Sense 10
Sense 12
wind.
Sense 17
have.
Sense 22
go.
Sense 23
DO.
Sense 37
set.
at times
sometimes.
compose
timing.
dawn
noon
point in time
wages
pay.
without delay
immediately, straight off, instantly, instant, straightaway, forthwith, right off, now, directly, right away.
Sense 1 (noun)
Sense 2 (noun)
coincidentally, accidentally, stochastic, coincidence, point, instant, occasion, accident, serendipity, moment, fluke, unlucky.
Sense 3 (noun)
circumstance, nowadays, juncture.
Sense 4 (noun)
rate.
Sense 5 (noun)
Sense 6 (noun)
pass.
Sense 7 (noun)
put off, fix, stretch, bring forward, rearrange, reschedule, schedule, postpone, move.
Sense 8 (noun)
frequency, irregular, long, length, irregularity, much, basis.
Sense 9 (noun)
Sense 10 (noun)
tour.
Sense 11 (noun)
punch out, go back, bout, clock off, set, reset, punch in, put forward, trick, clock in, shift, inning, stint, put back, go.
age (noun)
generation, lifetime, eon, oldness, lastingness, longevity.
break (noun)
calculation (noun)
measurement.
calendar (noun)
table, timetable.
chance (noun)
circumstance (noun)
go, coincidence, happenstance, phase.
course (noun)
date (noun)
century, period, course.
day (noun)
duration (noun)
date, length, aeon, epoch, cycle, season, interim, span, life, course, measure, duration, era, interval, spell, age.
event (noun)
clip.
experience (noun)
extent (noun)
stretch.
indefinite duration (noun)
phase (noun)
phase.
point of time (noun)
hour, century, month, year, millisecond, microsecond, second, decade, millennium, term, semester, week, minute, day.
speed (noun)
rate.
spell (noun)
spell.
time interval (noun)
time period (noun)
term.
up-to-date (noun)
weapon (noun)
bomb.
Usage examples for time:
- For he did not look her way, or, for a time, speak to her. - "Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France", Stanley J. Weyman.
- Oh, Lord, I've had a time! - "My Man Jeeves", P. G. Wodehouse.
- And that is what had happened this time. - "The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea", Laura Lee Hope.