Need another word that means the same as “while”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “while” in this overview.
The synonyms of “While” are: patch, piece, spell, time, stretch, stint, span, season, interval, period, period of time, length of time, duration, run, phase, stage, term, pass, spend, occupy, use up, kill, beguile
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “while” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| duration | The period of time during which something continues. A flight of over eight hours duration. |
| interval | A component of activity in interval training. An interval of mourning. |
| length of time | Continuance in time. |
| patch | A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program. A program patch that fixes a bug. |
| period | A set of elements occupying a horizontal row in the periodic table. The ale will be available for a limited period. |
| period of time | A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed. |
| phase | Each of the electrical windings or connections of a polyphase machine or circuit. The final phases of the war. |
| piece | A figure or token used to make moves in a board game. He needed a piece of granite. |
| run | A running pace. The assembly line was on a 12 hour run. |
| season | A period of the year characterized by a particular climatic feature or marked by a particular activity, event, or festivity. It was the Christmas season. |
| span | The wingspan of an aircraft or a bird. An eight span bridge. |
| spell | A time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else. He whispered a spell as he moved his hands. |
| stage | The theater as a profession usually the stage. I was in the early stages of pregnancy. |
| stint | Limitation of supply or effort. His varied career included a stint as a magician. |
| stretch | The fact or condition of a muscle being stretched. By no stretch of the imagination. |
| term | Agreed conditions under which a war or other dispute is brought to an end. The general term of an algebraic equation of the n th degree. |
| time | Time or an amount of time as reckoned by a conventional standard. Tunes in waltz time. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “while” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| beguile | Trick (someone) into doing something. They were beguiled into signing a peace treaty. |
| occupy | Occupy the whole of. The young prince will soon occupy the throne. |
| pass | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. Racegoers had formed card schools and cash was passing briskly. |
| spend | Spend completely. Spend money. |
| use up | Use up consume fully. |
| as | Used to emphasize an amount. Birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly. |
| coeval | A person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary. These lavas were coeval with the volcanic activity. |
| concomitant | Naturally accompanying or associated. She loved travel with all its concomitant worries. |
| concurrent | Occurring or operating at the same time. She was given nine months concurrent for each offence. |
| dalliance | Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest. Berkeley was my last dalliance with the education system. |
| duration | Continuance in time. A flight of over eight hours duration. |
| epoch | An arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded. The Victorian epoch. |
| era | A major division of geological time an era is usually divided into two or more periods. His death marked the end of an era. |
| existing | Presently existing. Opponents of the existing political system. |
| hitherto | Until now or until the point in time under discussion. Hitherto part of French West Africa Benin achieved independence in 1960. |
| interim | An interim dividend profit etc. An interim agreement. |
| just | Of an opinion or appraisal well founded justifiable. Simon really messed things up Didn t he just. |
| life | An account of the series of events making up a person s life. The ice cream vendors were the only signs of life. |
| meantime | During the intervening time. In the meantime I ll make some enquiries of my own. |
| meanwhile | At the same time. Meanwhile I will not think about the problem. |
| middle | The middle area of the human torso usually in front. There is a dearth of talent at middle level. |
| now | Used, especially in conversation, to draw attention to a particular statement or point in a narrative. It worked up to right now. |
| pending | About to happen; imminent. Business still pending. |
| period | A set of elements occupying a horizontal row in the periodic table. A change soon put a period to my tranquility. |
| present | Formally present a debutante a representative of a country etc. We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason. |
| provisory | Subject to a proviso; conditional. A provisory clause. |
| regularly | With a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual items. Leaves arranged regularly along the stem. |
| simultaneous | Occurring or operating at the same time. A simultaneous withdrawal of troops. |
| sync | Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner. Images flash on to your screen in sync with the music. |
| synchronize | Cause to occur or operate at the same time or rate. Both media synchronize national interests with multinational scope. |
| synchronous | Making or denoting an orbit around the earth or another celestial body in which one revolution is completed in the period taken for the body to rotate about its axis. Synchronous oscillations. |
| temporary | A worker especially in an office hired on a temporary basis. A temporary job. |
| time | A portion of time in history or characterized by particular events or circumstances. Williams timed his pass perfectly from about thirty yards. |
| timing | The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics. The introduction of new signal timings. |
| zeitgeist | The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. The story captured the zeitgeist of the late 1960s. |
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