even as

1. 1.

   at the same time as

   “even as he lay dying they argued over his estate”

   “the building collapsed just as he arrived”

   Synonymsjust as

Questions about even as

What does even as mean?

even as means "at the same time as".

What is another word for even as?

Close synonyms include just as. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is even as a common word?

even as is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.