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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
| Synonyms: | age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
| Main Entry: | vintage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crop, especially of wine |
| Synonyms: | collection, epoch, era, generation, grapes, harvest, origin, wine, year |
| Main Entry: | senectitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | old age |
| Synonyms: | advanced age, agedness, decrepitude, elderliness, fatuity, imbecility, infirmity, second childhood, senescence, senility, weakness*, year |
| Main Entry: | senescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | old age |
| Synonyms: | advanced age, agedness, decrepitude, elderliness, fatuity, imbecility, infirmity, second childhood, senectitude, senility, weakness*, year |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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appaumé, armshot, as long as my arm, as long as to, interminable, latitudinal, lengthened, lengthy, lineal, linear, long, longitudinal, longsome, no end of, oblong, outstretched, prolate, sesquipedalian, unshortened, wiredrawn
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| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Length. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
length, longitude, span; mileage., line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius., lengthening; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure; extension., [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain; arpent, handbreadth, jornada [U.S.], kos, vara., pedometer, perambulator; scale (measurement).
-verbs
be long; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along.", render long; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spinout; drawl., enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
-adjectives
long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened; sesquipedalian (words); interminable, no end of; macrocolous., linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong., as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened (shorten [more]).
-adverbs
lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in a line (continuously); in perspective., from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.
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| Antonyms: | shortness |
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| Concept: | Time. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap., intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite., era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade (period); moment, (instant) [more]., glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.
-verbs
continue, last, endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse; hold out., take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time., pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time (be inactive).
-adjectives
continuing; on foot; permanent (durable)
-adverbs
while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, from hour to hour; hourly, always; for a time, for a season;, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point., the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout (completely); for good (diuturnity)., hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once.
-phrases
time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, "time and tide wait for no
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