Meaning

3 senses

  1. Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

  2. The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.

  3. A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

    Time gentlemen please!

Examples

40060 sentences

  1. I was trying to kill time.

    Я намагався вбити час. — triantafillou

    ruЯ пытался скоротать время. — paul_lingvo

    deIch versuchte, die Zeit totzuschlagen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. It happened a long time ago.

    Це трапилося дуже давно. — deniko

    ruЭто произошло давным-давно. — Hellerick

    deEs ist vor langer Zeit passiert. — MUIRIEL

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  3. It's high time you got going.

    Тобі вже давно час іти. — deniko

    ruТебе уже пора идти. — fjay69

    deDu solltest schon längst abgefahren sein. — xtofu80

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  4. We are having a good time.

    Нам весело. — deniko

    ruМы хорошо проводим время. — odexed

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  5. Are you having a good time?

    Ви добре проводите час? — deniko

    ruВы хорошо проводите время? — nami

    deAmüsierst du dich gut? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, seaso

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.

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Forms

Word family

1 related words
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Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • a long time
  • times times
  • the last time
  • the first time
  • three times times
  • many times times
  • long time
  • last time
  • first time
  • a good time
  • all the time
  • lot of time

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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