big time
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.58 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment.
verb
Example Sentences
- "This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that."
- "A Wheel of Fortune contestant was about to win a shot at the million dollar grand prize when he bumbled his answer and lost out big time."
- "“American doesn’t hedge,” said Seth Kaplan, managing partner for the trade publication Airlines Weekly. “So, they have won big time.”"
- "North Vancouver condo buyers ‘won big time playing the long game’ [title]"
- "Peterborough United almost missed out on signing star man Ivan Toney, but now they are set to cash in big-time [title]"
- "But on other fronts there’s a clear case for optimism. Science has come to our rescue, big time, with the miraculously fast development of vaccines against the coronavirus."
Usage
Inflected Forms
big times (plural)
big-time (alternative)
bigtime (alternative)
more big time (comparative)
most big time (superlative)
big times (present, singular)
big timing (participle, present)
big timed (participle, past)
big timed (past)