time
The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Example
“Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time”
Other meanings
The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Synonyms
- clip
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "tīma".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “time” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.