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say it: tahymz
times is a noun meaning "a more or less definite period of time now or previously present". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
“it was a sign of the times”
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
“the multiplication of four by three gives twelve”
“four times three equals twelve”
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 times 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.