<span class="searchmatch">time</span> <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span> (uncountable) (poetic) The distant past. 2001, Tim Burton, Planet of the Apes (film) In the <span class="searchmatch">time</span> <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span>, we were the slaves and...
also: intime and intimé in <span class="searchmatch">time</span> At or <span class="searchmatch">before</span> the <span class="searchmatch">time</span> assigned. I would have died had I not been gottten to hospital in <span class="searchmatch">time</span>. (with for) Sufficiently early...
<span class="searchmatch">before</span> someone's <span class="searchmatch">time</span> (idiomatic) From <span class="searchmatch">before</span> one was born or old enough to be aware of the world. Coordinate terms: in one's day, in one's <span class="searchmatch">time</span> I don't...
<span class="searchmatch">time</span> junk <span class="searchmatch">time</span> kaolin clotting <span class="searchmatch">time</span> killing <span class="searchmatch">time</span> kipper <span class="searchmatch">time</span> lag <span class="searchmatch">time</span> lake retention <span class="searchmatch">time</span> land <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span> laptime last <span class="searchmatch">time</span> latency <span class="searchmatch">time</span> latent <span class="searchmatch">time</span>...
free association, Freud was both ahead of his <span class="searchmatch">time</span> and behind his <span class="searchmatch">time</span>. <span class="searchmatch">before</span> someone's <span class="searchmatch">time</span> behind one's <span class="searchmatch">time</span> in advance of commonly accepted ideas...
not <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span> Indicates that something is occurring just in <span class="searchmatch">time</span>, or is overdue....
lands <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span> plural of land <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span>...
land <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span> (plural lands <span class="searchmatch">before</span> <span class="searchmatch">time</span>) (geology, figurative) A region or territory of the Earth <span class="searchmatch">before</span> any living organisms existed. Prehistory; the...
moment; just <span class="searchmatch">before</span> or within the assigned <span class="searchmatch">time</span>. I very nearly drove into the car in front, but thankfully I managed to stop just in <span class="searchmatch">time</span>. at the eleventh...
<span class="searchmatch">time</span> of one's life (plural times of one's life or times of their lives) (idiomatic) A period of enjoying oneself immensely, or more than ever <span class="searchmatch">before</span>. Hypernym:...