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say it: MEEN-tahym
meantime is a noun and adverb meaning "the time between one event, process, or period and another". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the time between one event, process, or period and another
“meanwhile the socialists are running the government”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for meantime come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.