meantime

3 definitions found

meantime - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, n.
     The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
     [1913 Webster] Meantime

  Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, adv.
     In the intervening time; during the interval.
     [1913 Webster]

meantime - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meantime
      adv 1: 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" [syn: meanwhile, meantime, in the  meantime
             ]
      n 1: the time between one event, process, or period and another;
           "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn:
           interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag]