Synonyms for time
Another word for time is clip, clock time or fourth dimension. Below are 8 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
1. noun: an instance or single occasion for some event
- clip synonyms
2. noun: a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
3. noun: an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
4. noun: a suitable moment
5. noun: the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
6. noun: a person's experience on a particular occasion
7. noun: a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- clock time
8. noun: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- fourth dimension
9. noun: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- meter synonyms
- metre synonyms
10. noun: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- prison term
- sentence synonyms
11. verb: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- clock
12. verb: assign a time for an activity or event
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- case synonyms
- example synonyms
- instance synonyms
- period synonyms
- time period
- period of time
- day synonyms
- while
- second synonyms
- bit synonyms
- moment synonyms
- hard times
- dead synonyms
- piece synonyms
- minute synonyms
- space age
- mo
- spell synonyms
- high time
- occasion synonyms
- instant synonyms
- time to come
- local time
- past synonyms
- future synonyms
- present synonyms
- past times
- standard time
- civil time
- solar time
Time in word games
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- 4
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble TIME
- Is TIME a word?
- Words starting with T
Questions people ask
What is another word for time?
You can say clip, clock time, fourth dimension, meter or metre instead of time. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an instance or single occasion for some event".
What is the opposite of time?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for time; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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