Time
- n. The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
- n. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
- n. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
- n. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; — often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
- n. The duration of one’s life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
- n. A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
- n. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
- n. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
- n. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
- n. Tense.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.