while
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
he was here for a little while
Types & categories
- time hypernym
- cold spell hyponym
- hot spell hyponym
- snap hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cold spell |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hot spell |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | snap |