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View synonyms for awhile

awhile

[ uh-hwahyl, uh-wahyl ]

adverb

  1. for a short time or period:

    Stay awhile.



awhile

/ əˈwaɪl /

adverb

  1. for a brief period


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Spelling Note

The adverb awhile is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase a while is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile ).

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Word History and Origins

Origin of awhile1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English āne hwīle (dative); a 1, while

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Example Sentences

Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.

It made the rounds online awhile back that George Lucas had approached you to direct Return of the Jedi.

FoxFaith, established in 2006 by Twentieth Century-Fox, flew under the radar for awhile, and died a quick death.

[Laughs] I get that speech in fairly polite terms from 20th Century Fox once in awhile.

From the beginning, Guy had the better of the fight, unhorsing Herman and toying with him for awhile.

When they rose from table and went back into her little drawing-room, she left her daughter alone for awhile with Bernard.

The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.

The cloud of these coming enemy reinforcements has cast its shadow over us for awhile and now the sun shines again.

When it was all over Alila was not too tired to play for awhile with a few locusts he had caught in a net.

By noon they had reached Voiron, and here, at a quiet hostelry, they descended to pause awhile for rest and refreshment.

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