[syn: meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, n.
The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
[1913 Webster] Meantime
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, adv.
In the intervening time; during the interval.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
meanwhile
adv 1: at the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back
at the ranch..."
2: during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think
about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other
interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" [syn:
meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime]
n 1: the time between one event, process, or period and another;
"meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn:
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "meanwhile":
ad interim, at a stretch, between acts, betweentimes,
betweenwhiles, during the interval, during the time, en attendant,
for a time, for the meantime, for the moment, for the nonce,
in the interim, in the meanwhile, interim, interval, meantime,
pendente lite, temporarily, the while, until then, while