| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spare time |
Synonyms: |
chance, freedom, hour, leisure, liberty, occasion, one's own sweet time, opportunity, place, preference, spare moment, suitable time, whenever |
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
Synonyms: |
age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year |
| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
Synonyms: |
bit, breathing, crack, date, flash, hour, instant, jiff, jiffy, juncture, minute, no time, nothing flat, occasion, point, point in time, sec, second, shake, split second, stage, three winks, tick, time, trice, twinkle, twinkling, while, wink |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
Synonyms: |
befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack |
Antonyms: |
bad luck, misfortune |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
Synonyms: |
age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Time. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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-nouns
time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap., intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite., era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade (period); moment, (instant) [more]., glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.
-verbs
continue, last, endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse; hold out., take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time., pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time (be inactive).
-adjectives
continuing; on foot; permanent (durable)
-adverbs
while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, from hour to hour; hourly, always; for a time, for a season;, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point., the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout (completely); for good (diuturnity)., hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once.
-phrases
time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, "time and tide wait for no
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