Meaning

noun an instance or single occasion for some event

noun a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something

noun an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)

originFrom Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German…

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