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Time, n.

    1. Duration.
    2. Spell, season, interval, term, while, span, space of time.
    3. Period, age, era, epoch, date, term.
    4. Delivery, parturition, confinement, hour of travail, period of childbirth.
    5. Fit season, proper time, opportunity, season.
    6. Allotted period, appropriated time.
    7. Occasion, particular period.
    8. Life, lifetime, duration of one’s life.
    9. Present life, existence in this world.
    10. Leisure, vacant time, unoccupied time.
    11. (Mus.) Measure.

Time, v. a.

    1. Adapt to the occasion.
    2. Regulate (as to time)
    3. Note the rate of (with respect to speed).
    4. (Mus.) Measure.

Time-honored, a. Venerable, worthy of honor by reason of antiquity, ancient, old, of long standing.

Time-keeper, n. See Timepiece.

Timeliness, n. Seasonableness.

Timely, a. Seasonable, opportune, early, punctual, prompt.