Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in the meantime

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: in- the mean-time
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Example Sentences

""In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride.""
"But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him."
"In the meantime, the long-awaited battle of Hsuchow had started (inauspiciously with the Japanese taking the small walled town to the northeast, T'ai-erh-chuang)."

Inflected Forms

in the mean time (alternative)

Synonyms

for the meantime in meantime this meantime meanwhile meantime

Questions

What does in the meantime mean?: Meanwhile.

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