time

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   What is measured in hours, minutes, days, and years; the continued passing of existence.

   Time seemed to pass slowly while we waited.

2. 2
   noun

   A particular point in the day shown on a clock.

   Do you know what time it is?

3. 3
   noun

   A single occasion when something happens.

   This time they finally succeeded.

4. 4
   noun

   A period during which something happens or a person has an experience.

   We had a wonderful time on holiday.

5. 5
   verb

   To arrange or measure when something happens.

   She timed her arrival to match the start of the meeting.

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”) *…

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