| AFORETIME | • aforetime adv. (Archaic) In time past; in a former time; formerly. • aforetime adj. (Archaic) Former. • AFORETIME adv. in time past; formerly. |
| AFTERTIME | • aftertime n. A later time; the future. • aftertime n. (Music) The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words… • after-time n. Alternative form of aftertime. |
| ANTICRIME | • anticrime adj. Opposed to or aimed at preventing or punishing crime. • ANTICRIME adj. opposed to crime. |
| AUTOCRIME | • autocrime n. (Uncountable) Crime involving motor vehicles considered collectively. • autocrime n. (Countable) An instance of such a crime. • AUTOCRIME n. crime related to cars. |
| BREAKTIME | • breaktime n. (US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work. • breaktime n. (UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons. • break␣time n. Alternative form of breaktime. |
| BROOKLIME | • brooklime n. Certain plants of genus Veronica, with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes… • BROOKLIME n. a wild flower with small blue flowers. |
| DREAMTIME | • Dreamtime prop.n. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence. • DREAMTIME n. in the mythology of Australian Aboriginals, the time when the earth and patterns of life on earth took shape. |
| FLEXITIME | • flexitime n. An arrangement that allows employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must… • flexi-time n. Alternative spelling of flexitime. • FLEXITIME n. a system that allows flexible working hours, also FLEXTIME. |
| LUNCHTIME | • lunchtime n. The time or hour at or around which lunch is normally eaten. • lunchtime n. A break in work or school to eat lunch. • lunch-time n. The time of day at which lunch is eaten. |
| NIGHTTIME | • nighttime n. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night. • nighttime adj. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night. • nighttime adj. Happening during the night. |
| PANTOMIME | • pantomime n. (Now rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. • pantomime n. (Historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various… • pantomime n. (UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell’arte, but later aimed… |
| PEACETIME | • peacetime n. The period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war. • peace␣time n. Alternative form of peacetime. • PEACETIME n. a period of time between wars. |
| PRIMETIME | • primetime adj. Alternative form of prime time. • prime-time adj. Alternative spelling of prime time. • prime␣time n. (Television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually… |
| QUICKLIME | • quicklime n. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water. • quicklime v. (Transitive) To treat with quicklime. • quick␣lime n. Alternative spelling of quicklime. |
| SMALLTIME | • smalltime adj. Alternative spelling of small-time. • small-time adj. On a small scale. • small␣time n. (Informal) A modest level of achievement, often local. |
| SPACETIME | • spacetime n. (Uncountable, physics) The four-dimensional continuum of the three spatial dimensions plus time. • spacetime n. (Physics) An n-dimensional continuum consisting of dimensions of both space and time. Normally spacetime… • spacetime n. (Relativity) A specific region of the universe with mathematically different properties than the surrounding… |
| STORYTIME | • storytime n. The time at which a story is told. • STORYTIME n. a time set aside for the telling of stories. |
| UNDERTIME | • undertime v. (Transitive) To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required. • undertime v. (Transitive, photography) To underexpose. • undertime n. (Informal) The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities. |