time
/taɪm/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.29 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Uncountable
noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Uncountable
noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Uncountable
noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Uncountable
noun
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time"
- "Time is the fire in which we burn."
- "One of the most common truisms on Earth is the advice to value or at least not waste time. Why has it become so widespread? Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium. Not lithium or anything else, but time. Time. The very flow of time convinces us of this. Some people realize this sooner, and these are the lucky ones. Others realize it too late when they lose someone or something. People cannot avoid it, this is just a matter of time. But there is a fundamental difference that comes down to the question of time. The time of your life is under your control. The time of life of our force on the front line, the time of life of all Ukrainians who are forced to live through this terrible Russian aggression unfortunately is subject to many factors that are not all in their control. I do not wish anyone to feel like they are in my shoes, and it's impossible to give a manual on how to go through life so as not to waste time. However, one piece of advice always works. You have to know exactly why you need today and how you want your tomorrows to look like."
- "Time flies when you're having fun."
- "Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time."
- "So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated – was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!"
Etymology
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /taɪm/
- British English: /taɪm/