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Meaning of "erewhile" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EREWHILE

erewhile  [ɛəˈwaɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EREWHILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Erewhile is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES EREWHILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of erewhile in the English dictionary

The definition of erewhile in the dictionary is a short time ago; a little while before.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EREWHILE


awhile
əˈwaɪl
dwile
dwaɪl
erstwhile
ˈɜːstˌwaɪl
meanwhile
ˈmiːnˌwaɪl
otherwhile
ˈʌðəˌwaɪl
outwile
ˌaʊtˈwaɪl
somewhile
ˈsʌmˌwaɪl
umquhile
ˈʌmhwaɪl
while
waɪl
wile
waɪl
worthwhile
ˌwɜːθˈwaɪl
wyle
waɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EREWHILE

eremitical
eremitish
eremitism
eremurus
Erenburg
erenow
erepsin
erethic
erethism
erethismic
erethistic
erethitic
Eretria
Eretz Israel
Eretz Yisrael
erev
erev Pesach
erev Shabbat
Erevan
erewhiles

WORDS THAT END LIKE EREWHILE

Anglophile
audiophile
basophile
bibliophile
chile
cinephile
electrophile
Francophile
hydrophile
narghile
nucleophile
once in a while
paedophile
pedophile
Santiago de Chile
technophile
the while
thermophile
wait-a-while
zoophile

Synonyms and antonyms of erewhile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «erewhile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EREWHILE

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Translator English - Chinese

erewhile
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

erewhile
570 millions of speakers

English

erewhile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

erewhile
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

erewhile
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

erewhile
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

erewhile
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কিছুকাল পূর্বে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

naguère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Erewhile
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erewhile
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

erewhile
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

erewhile
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Erewhile
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

erewhile
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

erewhile
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ईक्विली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bir an evvel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

erewhile
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

erewhile
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

erewhile
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

erewhile
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

erewhile
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

erewhile
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

erewhile
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of erewhile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EREWHILE»

The term «erewhile» is used very little and occupies the 157.673 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EREWHILE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «erewhile» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «erewhile» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about erewhile

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EREWHILE»

Discover the use of erewhile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to erewhile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A book of vagaries: comprising the New mirror for travellers ...
comprising the New mirror for travellers and other whim-whams; being selections from the papers of a retired common-councilman, erewhile known as Launcelot Langstaff, and in the public records, as James K. Paulding James Kirke Paulding.
James Kirke Paulding, 1868
2
Understanding The Prelude
The reader who wishes to pursue the implication of “self-same” can look for a previous mention, and does not need to be told that the church was “spoken of erewhile,” which gives him no more precise location of the earlier mention than does ...
W J B Owen, 2007
3
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume 11: With ...
... chin and parchment chap, Were signs of day-work done, and wage-time near, —mishap Merely; but, Age reduced to simple greed and guile, Worn apathetic else as some smooth slab, erewhile 1705 A clear-cut man-at-arms i' the pavement, ...
Robert Browning, Michael Bright, 2008
4
A Vindication of the Church of Scotland's India Missions: ...
... smiling with beauty, and exuberant with the varied bounties of a gracious Providence. Behind them, all is as a desert, naked and leafless, peeled and stripped bare — one vast and profound solitude, where, erewhile, was crowded all that is ...
Alexander Duff, 1837
5
Ovid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses.:
Erewhile13 in fine array, On soft sweet herbs, or soft green leaves, herself she nicely14 lays, Erewhile again, a-gathering flowers, from place to place she strays, And, as it chanced, the selfsame time she was a-sorting gays,15 To make a posy,  ...
Sarah Annes Brown, Andrew Taylor, 2013
6
Notes
[11; 10 blanl(\ the white butterfly16 The Mother with her brood — America resultant Erewhile I sang The Single Self complete [7^; 12 blan\; 13—14 cut out] The17 Mother, with her brood, Of the18 Mother of All, with19 mighty brood; Of20 the ...
Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier, 1984
7
The Scottish Christian Herald
plenty, smiling with beauty, and exuberant with the varied bounties of a gracious Providence. Behind them, all is a desert, naked and leafless, peeled, and stripped bare, — one vast and profound solitude, where, erewhile, was crowded all that ...
8
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus ...
Yes,. Rome. shall. see. you,. lewdlier. clad,. erewhile,. (FOR NONE BECOME, AT ONCE, COMPLETELY VILE,) but simply of an effect ; the translation, however, agrees best with the preceding example. For the rest, this is a proverbial ...
Juvenal, Persius, 1817
9
The Satires of Decimus I. Iuvenalis and of Aulus Persius ...
Yes,. Rome. shall. see. you,. lewdlier. clad,. erewhile,. (For. none. become,. aT. once,. compleTely. vile,). but simply of an effect ; the translation, however, agrees best with the preceding example. For the rest, this is a proverbial expression ...
Aulus Persius Flaccus, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, William Gifford, 1817
10
A concordance to the poems and plays of Robert Browning
2:105 Red Cotton 1118 e redness (1) No whit more than a tree, bom to erectness of bole 2:678 Ixion50 Eretrla (1) Razed to the ground is Eretria - but Athens, shall Athens sink, 2:585 Pheidippides 19 erewhile (IS) He never dared explore, the ...
Richard J. Shroyer, Thomas J. Collins, 1996

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EREWHILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term erewhile is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What The Surrender At Appomattox Court House 150 Years Ago …
At the right of our line our little group mounted beneath our flags, the red Maltese cross on a field of white, erewhile so bravely borne through ... «Task & Purpose, Jul 15»
2
The Metcalfiad
... the narrator, in implicating a founding father in his commutorial distress, insists an insistence too far upon the horrors of his erewhile matutinal ... «Oxford American, Jun 15»
3
Why bringing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Balochistan …
... military version of the narrative could not resolve the erewhile issue of Bangladesh and resulted its dismemberment from Pakistan in 1971, ... «The Nation, May 15»
4
Batavia High School turns back the calendar for latest production
... touch of Puck's magic herb, Lysander and Demetrius were 'translated' and ready to cross swords for the love of the erewhile flouted Helena. «The Daily News Online, Nov 14»
5
Eager to Please
And so, in Koons's images of himself copulating with his erewhile wife, the Hungarian-Italian porn star Cicciolina, or in his multihued images of ... «The Weekly Standard, Sep 14»
6
Today's View: Remembering Ka Pepe Diokno
No doubt, the ascent to the helm of power by former President Fidel Ramos, the erewhile chief hatchetman of the dictator, was spurred by such ... «Davao Today, Apr 13»
7
Today's View: Education, a doubly irrelevant enterprise
The other essential nature of Philippine education is that it is colonial — meaning it is premised on the needs and purposes of our erewhile ... «Davao Today, Mar 13»

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