whiles

Speech parts

1. whiles - Noun

2. whiles - Verb

3. whiles - Adverb

4. whiles - Conjunction

Meaning

Meanwhile; meantime.

sometimes; at times.

During the time that; while.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meanwhile time while period times phase pass piece spend duration interval occupy span stretch till
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Antonyms

end success whole advantage solution save
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Examples

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. George Herbert

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. A. E. Housman

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions. William Shakespeare

Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands. Edmund Spenser

Quhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger hes. Scottish Proverb

Quhiles thou, whiles I, soe goes the Baillerie. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

whilemeal whilend whilere whilest whilk Whilkut