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I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.
Stacy Keibler

Meaning of "quality time" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF QUALITY TIME

quality time  [ˈkwɒlɪtɪ taɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUALITY TIME

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quality time is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUALITY TIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quality time

"Quality time" is an informal reference to time spent with close family, partners or friends that is in some way important, special, productive or profitable. It is time that is set aside for paying full and undivided attention to the person or matter at hand. It may also refer to time spent performing some favorite activity. "Quality time" is a relatively new expression, in use since the 1970s. One of the earliest records of this phrase in print was in the Maryland newspaper The Capital, January 1973, in the article "How To Be Liberated": The major goal of each of these role changes is to give a woman time to herself, Ms. Burton explained. "A woman's right and responsibility is to be self fulfilling," she said. She gives "quality time" rather than "quantity time" to each task, whether it be writing, cleaning the house or tending the children. Quality time is considered to be one of the five "languages" which are used to express love, according to relationship counselor Gary Chapman.

Definition of quality time in the English dictionary

The definition of quality time in the dictionary is if people spend quality time together, they spend a period of time relaxing or doing things that they both enjoy, and not worrying about work or other responsibilities.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUALITY TIME


anytime
ˌɛnɪˈtaɪm
bedtime
ˈbɛdˌtaɪm
big-time
ˈbɪɡˌtaɪm
daytime
ˈdeɪˌtaɪm
downtime
ˈdaʊnˌtaɪm
lifetime
ˈlaɪfˌtaɪm
longtime
ˈlɒŋˌtaɪm
lunchtime
ˈlʌntʃtaɪm
maritime
ˈmærɪˌtaɪm
meantime
ˈmiːnˌtaɪm
overtime
ˈəʊvəˌtaɪm
playtime
ˈpleɪˌtaɪm
prime-time
praɪm taɪm
showtime
ˈʃəʊtaɪm
sometime
ˈsʌmˌtaɪm
spare-time
ˈspɛəˌtaɪm
springtime
ˈsprɪŋˌtaɪm
summertime
ˈsʌməˌtaɪm
thyme
taɪm
time
taɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUALITY TIME

qualifier
qualifies
qualify
qualifying
qualifying exam
qualitative
qualitative analysis
qualitative identity
qualitatively
qualitied
qualities
quality
quality control
quality controller
quality factor
quality newspaper
quality of life
quality papers
quality press
qualm

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUALITY TIME

ahead of time
all the time
all-time
at one time
at the same time
big time
from time to time
full time
in good time
in no time
in the fullness of time
in the nick of time
in time
local time
on time
once upon a time
opening time
real time
short time
summer time
the big time

Synonyms and antonyms of quality time in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quality time» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUALITY TIME

Find out the translation of quality time to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quality time from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quality time» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

开心时光 >
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiempo de calidad
570 millions of speakers

English

quality time
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुणवत्ता समय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نوعية الوقت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

время качество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tempo dedicado exclusivamente ao lazer, sem preocupações com trabalho ou outras coisas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুণ সময়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moments privilégiés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

masa berkualiti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Qualitätszeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

充実した楽しい時間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

귀가 후 자녀와 보내는 귀중하고 즐거운 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kualitas wektu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thời gian chất lượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தரமான நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्तम वेळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaliteli zaman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tempo dedicato alle relazioni familiari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jakość czasu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

час якість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

timp de calitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ποιοτικό χρόνο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kwaliteit tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvalitetstid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvalitetstid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quality time

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUALITY TIME»

The term «quality time» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.687 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUALITY TIME» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «QUALITY TIME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word quality time.
1
Spencer Boldman
I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.
2
Eric Dane
With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters.
3
Karen Finerman
I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
4
Anthony Hamilton
'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
5
Neil Patrick Harris
I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
6
Jesse Jackson
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
7
Jane Kaczmarek
I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
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Stacy Keibler
I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.
9
Malaika Arora Khan
Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.
10
Lydia Lunch
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUALITY TIME»

Discover the use of quality time in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quality time and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Quality Time for Free: A Parent's Guide to Games and Laughter
Some great suggestions for parents looking for a list of fun activities to enjoy playing with their children.
Drew Stirton, 2007
2
PISA Quality Time for Students: Learning In and Out of School
OECD. rELatioNSHiPS bEtwEEN StuDENtS' LEarNiNG timE aND PErformaNcE PoLicy imPLicatioNS For policy makers Improve quality of in-school lessons Across countries, absolute learning time in schools is positively, but weakly, related ...
OECD, 2011
3
The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment ...
Dr. Gary Chapman's international bestseller has brought back or intensified the love in millions of marriages by revealing the five distinct languages we all use to express love:
Gary D Chapman, 2005
4
The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships ...
Assessing what parents said about the purpose of spending quality time, the activities associated with quality time, their main role or responsibility during quality time, and how much time parents thought was necessary to qualify as " quality" ...
Bryan Strong, Theodore Cohen, 2013
5
Quality Time for Dad: A Parenting Guide For The Single Father
Quality Time for Dad is written for the single father but can be appreciated by the single mother! In Quality Time for Dad, most of the questions a single father may WANT to ask, but never did, can be answered right here!
Janice M. Todd, 2004
6
Healthy Habits, Happy Kids: A Practical Plan to Help Your Family
Several years ago, as more and more women were entering the workforce, a theory was proposed that said how much time you spent with your children didn't matter as long as it was "quality" time. It was called the "quality versus quantity time" ...
Gregory L. Jantz, 2005
7
Working Mother
It does not have to mean doing nothing else at all; as we know, doing more than one thing at a time is a way of life for working mothers. But true quality time does not allow the kind of abstracted answer that we sometimes give when we are not  ...
8
Psychosocial Issues in Day Care
A mistaken notion in parenting is the issue of quality time. Quality time is supposed to be the time that is in tune with the infant or toddler's needs. With the parents working full-time and the fatigue of the end of the day, scheduling a time that ...
Shahla S. Chehrazi, 1990
9
Qualitytime-esl: The Digital Resource Book
This detailed guide will help teachers to create a dynamic learning course to further the teaching of English.
Marianne Raynaud, 2009
10
John Rosemond's New Parent Power!
The concept of quality time was coined in the early 1970s to address the anxieties of mothers who feared they were doing their children harm by entering or reentering the workplace. "Not so!" announced the purveyors of quality time. "It isn't ...
John Rosemond, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUALITY TIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quality time is used in the context of the following news items.
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There's more to spending quality time with your kids than you think
Even though the American Time Use Survey report showed that adults found 10 more minutes to work and three more minutes to watch television in 2014 than ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»
2
Time Machine and Steve Young stress the importance of quality time
Melissa Fromm from the Forever Young Foundation and Lindsay Hadley with Time Machine talk about Steve and Barb Young's Forever Young Campaign and ... «Good4Utah, Jul 15»
3
Britney Spears enjoys some quality time with her sons Jayden and …
And Britney Spears looked blissfully happy as she enjoyed some quality time with her boys in Los Angeles on Friday. The pop superstar, 33, dressed for the sun ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
4
How Much Quality Time Do You Actually Spend With The People …
On the good news front, the Washington Post reports that quality time trumps quantity, so we parents should stop stressing about how much time we're spending ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jun 15»
5
A Mother and Daughter's Quality Time in the Jungles of Ecuador
For a mother-daughter trip, my youngest daughter, Erin, then 25 years old, picked South America, a part of the world she had never visited. I was responsible for ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
6
How Much Quality Time Do You Actually Spend with the People You …
On the good news front, the Washington Post reports that quality time trumps quantity, so we parents should stop stressing about how much time we're spending ... «Lifehacker, May 15»
7
Owner of Quality Time Food & Spirits in Meriden dies
MERIDEN — Family and friends are mourning the death of Paul Vumbaco, owner of Quality Time Food & Spirits on Broad Street and a landscaping equipment ... «Meriden Record-Journal, May 15»
8
Children with same-sex parents receive more quality time
Children of same-sex parents are getting more one-on-one time with their parents than children with different-sex parents, according to a new study published in ... «Gay Star News, May 15»
9
Pawan Kalyan meets ailing fan, spends quality time with her
Telugu superstar and politician Pawan Kalyan took out time from his busy schedule to meet his young fan suffering from serious illness and was delighted to ... «India Today, Apr 15»
10
Find quality time for yourself and kids
NOT long ago, my daughter found a diary she'd kept when she was 7 or 8 years old and came to share it with me. Now a preteen, we laughed at her creative ... «The Seattle Times, Apr 15»

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