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all-time

adj

Etymology

From all + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as all-time — “all + time”

Definitions

  1. Of all time

    Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.

    • Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.
    • And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all-time. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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