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awhile

adv
/əˈwaɪl/

Etymology

From Old English āne (“(for) a”) hwīle (“while”).

  1. derived from āne

Definitions

  1. For some time

    For some time; for a short time.

    • Sit with me awhile.
    • Take two cupfuls of rolled oats, put in bread pan, turn on four cupfuls of boiling water, stir for awhile.
    • Engine No. 18 went off into a shed to rest awhile, and No. 7, a precisely similar one, backed on to the train in her place.

  2. In the meantime

    In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process.

    • Can I get you a drink awhile?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA