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breaktime

noun

Etymology

From break + 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 breaktime — “break + time”

Definitions

  1. A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.

  2. A break for schoolchildren between lessons.

    • It tends to evaluate the liking for, and the acceptance of, the pupils in their class as peers, rather than asking children to specifically select their friends, breaktime and home companions.
    • The significance of breaktimes as a mechanism for children to develop social competence is highlighted in much of Peter Blatchford's work.
    • Designed by architects working for Norman Foster, it had no playground and no morning breaktime.

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