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blink of an eye en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, uncountable, usually) A moment (a very short period of time).
   • Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone.
   • Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body? 2002, Iron & Wine, “Upward Over the Mountain”, in The Creek Drank the Cradle:
   • In the blink of an eye it just all slips away 2020, “Ready For More”, in Open up your head, performed by Sea Girls:

Forms

Deriveds

in the blink of an eye

Synonyms

New York second · span · minute · while · New York minute · jiffy · trice · twinkling · bat of an eye · instant · blink of an eye · no time · eyeblink · twinkle · stound · bat of an eye · split-second · bit · tick · spurt · sec · second · mo · crack · eyeblink · glimpse · jiff · twink · half a mo · jot · flash · moment

Translations (35)

it batter d'occhio (moment (a very short period of time)) · fi silmänräpäys (moment (a very short period of time)) · it batter d'occhi (moment (a very short period of time)) · pt piscar de olhos (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augeblikk (moment (a very short period of time)) · nl ogenblik (moment (a very short period of time)) · ru мгнове́ние (moment (a very short period of time)) · nds-de Ogenblick (moment (a very short period of time)) · pl okamgnienie (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augeblink (moment (a very short period of time)) · da øjeblik (moment (a very short period of time)) · ja あっという間 (moment (a very short period of time)) · la nictātiō (moment (a very short period of time)) · hu szempillantás (moment (a very short period of time)) · de Augenschlag (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augneblunk (moment (a very short period of time)) · ro clipită (moment (a very short period of time)) · sv ögonblick (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augneblink (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augneblikk (moment (a very short period of time)) · fr clin d'œil (moment (a very short period of time)) · tr an (moment (a very short period of time)) · bg миг (moment (a very short period of time)) · ro clipă (moment (a very short period of time)) · cmn 瞬間 /瞬间 (moment (a very short period of time)) · de Augenblick (moment (a very short period of time)) · af oomblik (moment (a very short period of time)) · de Wimpernschlag (moment (a very short period of time)) · yi אויגנבליק (moment (a very short period of time)) · it battito di ciglia (moment (a very short period of time)) · nn augeblunk (moment (a very short period of time)) · nb øyeblikk (moment (a very short period of time)) · ru мгнове́ние о́ка (moment (a very short period of time)) · mi matakarapa (moment (a very short period of time)) · cmn 眨眼 (moment (a very short period of time))