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Meanwhile   /mˈinwˌaɪl/   Listen
adverb
Meanwhile, Meantime  adv.  In the intervening time; during the interval.



noun
Meanwhile, Meantime  n.  The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Meanwhile" Quotes from Famous Books



... what we shall see," he retorted in a menacing tone. "Meanwhile it does not occur to me to leave you in peace and to make no more trouble. I tell you that this Gigerl was stolen from me on New Year's eve. I know it well enough, for I ...
— A Cigarette-Maker's Romance • F. Marion Crawford

... till Friday of the last week of July. In the meanwhile, the London Journals arrived with news that O'Brien and his friends had been received with open arms in the south, and great excitement and suspicion of strangers arose in Scotland. In the Reading Room at Paisley I read myself in The Hue and Cry. One paper stated I was ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... instructions, the seventeenth of June, 1610, Robert Tyndall, master of the De la Warre, to fish unto, all along, and between Cape Henry and Cape Charles within the bay.... Nor was the Lord Governor and Captain General in the meanwhile idle at the fort, but every day and night he caused the nets to be hauled, sometimes a dozen times one after another. But it pleased not God so to bless our labours that we did at any time take one quarter so much as would give unto our people one ...
— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton

... Meanwhile the two perjured priests, who, by the mock grace of their Order were placed within the choir, had taken up positions immediately behind Lorenzo, as though to render him assistance in the divine service, suddenly attacked him with daggers, but unskilfully. Lorenzo scrambled to his feet, ...
— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley

... And meanwhile Jesus was resting in Bethany, surrounded by great throngs who were pouring into the place to see Lazarus, and to renew their allegiance to the Master whom they had so basely forsaken. Time-servers ever, the latest miracles ...
— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka


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