IDIOMS
in the meantime in the period of time between two times or two events
SYNMEANWHILE:
My first novel was rejected by six publishers. In the meantime I had written a play. * The next programme starts in five minutes; in the meantime, here's some music.
adverb (informal) = MEANWHILE:
I'll contact them soon. Meantime don't tell them I'm back.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for meantime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is meantime a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, meantime is tagged as noun.
Does meantime appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — meantime appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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