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say it: MEEN-wahyl
meanwhile is an adverb and noun meaning "at the same time but in another place". It carries 3 recorded senses.
at the same time but in another place
“meanwhile, back at the ranch...”
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”
the time between one event, process, or period and another
“meanwhile the socialists are running the government”
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 meanwhile 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.