What does meanwhile mean?
Definitions for meanwhile
ˈminˌʰwaɪl, -ˌwaɪlmean·while
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word meanwhile.
Princeton's WordNet
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagadverb
the time between one event, process, or period and another
"meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
meanwhileadverb
at the same time but in another place
"meanwhile, back at the ranch..."
meanwhile, meantime, in the meantimeadverb
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"
Wiktionary
meanwhilenoun
The time between two events
meanwhileadverb
During the time (that something is happening).
meanwhileadverb
At the same time, but elsewhere.
Webster Dictionary
Meanwhilenoun
the intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time)
Meanwhileadverb
in the intervening time; during the interval
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'meanwhile' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2101
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'meanwhile' in Adverbs Frequency: #172
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meanwhile in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meanwhile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of meanwhile in a Sentence
The White House proclaimed the pandemicis over, but as the Pentagon just reiterated, the purge continues, as they systematically drive out of the Coast Guard [and all branches of the military] the best and the brightest, like LTJG Stone and our other plaintiffs, meanwhile, they use cookie-cutter form denial letters citing nonsensical excuses for their religiousdiscrimination. For example, they told LTJG Stone that he was not 'worldwide deployable' due to his unvaccinated status, despite the fact that he had just completedfourworldwide deployments, during which time he missed not a single day of work while no less than12%of his fully vaccinated shipmates were quarantined with COVID.
Meanwhile, with the explosion of cell phones, video cameras, and print and online media reports, both past and present — as well as tens of thousands of paper UFO files collected by MUFON prior to 2006 — the need to be able to have all this data in one place and easily correlated is all the more important.
We really have no evidence that this works in reallife scenarios, meanwhile, we do have many other reflux treatments that are well studied and pretty effective for people.
It was the Black Muslims who challenged Black preachers and said, ‘you’re promulgating … the White man’s religion. That’s a slave religion. You’re telling people to focus on heaven, meanwhile, they’re catching hell,'.
I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family, meanwhile, he hated any success I had, and would belittle me and get angry any time I achieved a goal.
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- لما, أماArabic
- mentrestantCatalan, Valencian
- mezitímCzech
- derweil, einstweilen, inzwischen, unterdessenGerman
- εντωμεταξύGreek
- mientras tantoSpanish
- sillä välin, sillä aikaa, samaan aikaanFinnish
- entretemps, pendant ce temps-làFrench
- בינתייםHebrew
- intanto, nel frattempoItalian
- その間にJapanese
- له ههمان کاتKurdish
- intereā, interimLatin
- sementara ituMalay
- intussenDutch
- imensNorwegian
- tymczasem, na razie, w międzyczasiePolish
- ao mesmo tempo, enquanto issoPortuguese
- между тем, в это время, тем временем, в то же времяRussian
- u međuvremenuSerbo-Croatian
- medtemSlovene
- under tiden, samtidigtSwedish
- دریں اثناUrdu
- 与此同Chinese
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