Meaning

noun an instance or single occasion for some event

verb measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

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

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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