Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
for a short time;
- Example: "sit down and stay awhile"- Example: "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"- Example: "the baby was quiet for a while"[syn: awhile, for a while]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
for a while
adv 1: for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they
settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby
was quiet for a while" [syn: awhile, for a while]