Associations to the word «Meantime»

Wiktionary

MEANTIME, noun. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
MEANTIME, adverb. During the interval; meanwhile

Dictionary definition

MEANTIME, noun. The time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government".
MEANTIME, adverb. During the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats