while away

1. 1.

   spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time

   Synonymsget through

   Broaderspend

Questions about while away

What does while away mean?

while away means "spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time".

What is another word for while away?

Close synonyms include get through. 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 while away a common word?

while away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.