Meanwhile

Definitions: Meanwhile

Meanwhile

Adverb

1. At the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back at the ranch...".

2. 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".

Date "meanwhile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Meanwhile

Synonyms: in the meantime (adv), meantime (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Synchronism	At the very moment; just as, as soon as; meanwhile; (while).
Time	Adverb: 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;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Meanwhile

English words defined with "meanwhile": Whiles. (references)

Specialty definitions using "meanwhile": Michal ♦ Oril'o. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Meanwhile, Sally Jessy Raphael has named her new estate Apartment 4B. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Meanwhile, you just skip along, Shirley. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) We kill ourselves to do the right thing, meanwhile the bad people keep coming back. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)
Lyrics	Meanwhile, y'quietly sleepin' soun'ly (ANOTHER NIGHT IN TUNISIA; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)
Movie/TV Titles	Meanwhile On BBC2 (1971)
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Domain	Title
Books	Adventures In Odyssey Cassettes #14: Meanwhile In Another Part Of Town (reference) Against the Meanwhile (3 Elegies) (reference) Meanwhile Back at the Castle (reference) Meanwhile Farm (reference) Meanwhile in Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Meanwhile (reference) Meanwhile Back at the Ranch [CD5/Cassette] [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Meanwhile, on the Atlantic side.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Emma, in the meanwhile, could not be satisfied without a dinner at Hartfield for the Eltons.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	Meanwhile a chair had been placed for the Other Professor, between the Empress and Sylvie.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Meanwhile, there I was, a Surveyor of the Revenue, and, so far as I have been able to understand, as good a Surveyor as need be.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Meanwhile, in spite of all that, and because of all that, his passion was growing, and was growing mad.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The bargain was soon concluded, for James had in the meanwhile returned.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Meanwhile, 7 % have purchased a least one book at Asda, 6 % at Tesco, and 4 % at other supermarket chains. (references)
		Domestic manufacturers of proprietary drugs are meanwhile considering marketing generic versions of their own pharmaceuticals. (references)
Discrimination	Hong Kong	In August the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that "appropriate legislation be adopted to provide appropriate legal remedies and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin." Meanwhile, press reports continued to identify examples of strong societal prejudice against minority groups including mainland Chinese migrants. (references)
Economic History	Netherlands	The GSM prepaid market has meanwhile overtaken the GSM subscription market. (references)
	Burma	Meanwhile corruption is rising and the benefits of the market economy have not been widely shared. (references)
Political Economy	CHILE	Unemployment, meanwhile, has remained persistently high for the last two years, and is currently hovering near ten percent, despite large-scale government jobs programs. (references)
	NORWAY	Parliament agreed to the Government of Norway's plan, and 23 percent of Statoil was sold in an initial stock market offering on June 18, 2001. Telenor, meanwhile, was part-privatized in December 2000, leaving the government with a stake of 78 percent. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Meanwhile, doctors in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have to talk about striking because they can't afford their malpractice insurance to protect them from guys like Edwards who make money by suing whether the case has merit or not.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Meanwhile this country has continued to bear more than its share of the West's military and foreign aid obligations.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Meanwhile, an overwhelming November resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on Afghanistan has again made clear that the world has not and will not forget Afghanistan.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Meanwhile" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meanwhile" is used about 4,808 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	4,808	2,038

Expression using "meanwhile": in the meanwhile. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "meanwhile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		tegelyk (all, all the time, at, at the same time, in the meantime), solank (all, all the time, in the meantime), intusse (all, all the time, all the while, in the meantime). (various references)

Albanian		ndërsa (as, meantime, whereas, while, whiles, whilst), ndërkohë (interim, interval, lag, meantime, whiles), ndërkaq. (various references)

Arabic		‏في غضون (meantime), ‏خلال (during, meantime, midst, over, through), ‏إبان (during, meantime). (various references)

Bulgarian		междувременно (meantime), през това време (meantime). (various references)

Chinese		與此同時 (at the same time), 同时 (simultaneous, simultaneously). (various references)

Czech		mezitím (in the meantime), zatím (for the time being, in the meantime, meantime, so far, yet), prozatím (for the time being, in the meantime). (various references)

Dutch		intussen (all the time, all the while, in the meantime), inmiddels (all the time, all the while, in the meantime), daarentegen (all the time, in the meantime, on the contrary, otherwise). (various references)

Esperanto		intertempe (all the while), dumtempe, dume (all the time, in the meantime). (various references)

Farsi		ضمنا (Meantime, Tacit), درضمن (Course, Meantime), درخلال (Meantime), دراین ضمن (Meantime), دراثناء (Meantime). (various references)

Finnish		sill'aikaa (meantime), sillä aikaa (meantime). (various references)

French		dans l'intervalle (in the meantime). (various references)

Frisian		alfêst (all the time, already, by now, in the meantime, yet). (various references)

German		unterdessen (all the time, in the meantime, meantime), inzwischen (all the time, in the meantime, meantime, since), indessen (however, in the meantime, meantime, while), währenddessen (in the meantime), indes (all the time, however, in the meantime, meantime, whereas, while). (various references)

Greek		εν τω μεταξύ (between, in the meantime, meantime). (various references)

Hebrew		בין כ�" וכ�" (anyhow, meantime), בי� תים (in the meantime, meantime). (various references)

Hungarian		időközben (in the meantime, meantime). (various references)

Indonesian		sementara itu, sedangkan (whereas, while). (various references)

Italian		mentre (as, as long as, meantime, moment, whereas, while, whilst). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		然斯 , 一方 (in turn, on the other hand, one direction, one party, one side, one way, only, simple, the other party). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そう�"う (achievement, armored, bustle, conduct, deportment, document transmission, draft, efficacy, fruition, hatch, hatchway, hurry, manuscript, notes, plain food, rousing, running a wheeled vehicle, simple living, success, traveling), いっぽう (in turn, information, on the other hand, one direction, one party, one side, one way, only, simple, the other party). (various references)

Korean		그 사이에. (various references)

Papiamen		mientrastantu (all the time, in the meantime), mientrastanto (all the time, in the meantime), den esei (all the time, all the while, in the meantime). (various references)

Pig Latin		eanwhilemay

Polish		tymczasem (all the time, in the meantime). (various references)

Portuguese		entretanto (at the same time, but, however, indeed, meantime, nevertheless, still, though, yet). (various references)

Romanian		pânã una alta (meantime), deocamdatã (for the present, for the time being, meantime), între timp (hereupon, in the mean time, in the meantime, meantime, the while). (various references)

Russian		тем временем (in the interim, meantime). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		međutim (but, however), u međuvremenu (meantime). (various references)

Spanish		mientras tanto (meantime, nonce, while), entretanto (betweenwhiles, meantime, while). (various references)

Swedish		under tiden (during, in the meantime, meantime). (various references)

Thai		ข�"ะที่ (as). (various references)

Turkish		iken (as, during, in the meantime, in the meanwhile, meantime, when, while), bu arada (among other things, at this time, by the way, in the meantime, in the meanwhile, incidentally, inter alia, meantime), aynı anda (at the same time, simultaneously). (various references)

Turkmen		hдzirlikзe (for now, for the time being). (various references)

Ukranian		тим часом (in the interim). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	interea, interim. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "meanwhile": meanwhiles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Meanwhile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maenwhile, Meanhwile, Meanwile, Meinholf, mewanwhile. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "meanwhile" (pronounced mē"nwī'l)
3	-w ī' l	erstwhile.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-l-m-n-w"
	-1 letter: whalemen, wheelman.
	-2 letters: hemline.
	-3 letters: awhile, enamel, haemin, hiemal, inhale, lawine, lawmen, maline, mealie, meanie, menial, wahine.
	-4 letters: alien, aline, almeh, amine, anele, anile, anime, elain, elemi, email, enema, hemal, hemin, leman, liane, liman, limen, maile, minae, newel, newie, whale, wheal, wheel, wheen, whelm, while, whine.
	-5 letters: ahem, alee, alme, amen, amie, amin, anew, anil.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-l-m-n-w"
	+1 letter: meanwhiles.
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