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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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awhile

 : 
Adverb
 : 
a=while

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial awhile has 1 sense

  • awhile(r = adv.all) for a while - for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby was quiet for a while"

CIDE DICTIONARY

awhileadv. [Adj. a + while time, interval.].
     For a while; for some time; for a short time.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

awhile, adv. for a short time.

Etymology
OE ane hwile a while

ROGET THESAURUS

awhile

Transientness

N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.

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