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what time en · CCONJ

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare) When.
    • Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile / Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd / The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride / Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host / Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring / To set himself in Glory above his Peers[...]. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, page Canto I, line 36:

what time en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, time.
    • What times we had at summer camp!
    • Excuse me, what time do you have?
    • For what time did she order the delivery?
    • He told me what time they would be leaving.
    • (At) What time does the boss go to lunch?
    • What time is it?