Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

for a time

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.18 in modern English

Syllables: for a -time
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

For a relatively short period of time (in the past).

Example Sentences

"My experience with Vorticella led me for a time into the false supposition that this sort of fungous disfiguration, which makes Self disagreeably larger, was most common to the female sex; […]"

Questions

What does for a time mean?: For a relatively short period of time (in the past).

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