tempus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- age noun The length of time someone or something has existed, usually counted in years.
- circumstance noun A fact or condition connected to an event, which affects how it happens or is understood.
- date noun A specific point in time, usually given as a day, month, and year.
- season noun One of the four main divisions of the year — spring, summer, autumn, or winter — marked by particular weather patterns.
- temple noun A building used for worship, especially in religions other than mainstream Christianity.
- tense adjective Feeling or showing stress, anxiety, or strain; not relaxed.
- time noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.
Senses
tempus is used for these senses in English:
- age (countable, poker) The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- circumstance An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).
- date A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- season (North America, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- temple (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- tense (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- time (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- time (uncountable, with, possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
age — full definition
- noun The length of time someone or something has existed, usually counted in years.
- noun A particular period in history, especially one with distinct characteristics.
- noun A long, often exaggerated, period of time.
- verb To grow older, or to show signs of growing older.