whiles

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English

Pronunciation

enPR: (h)wīlz, IPA^(key): /(h)waɪlz/
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Rhymes: -aɪlz
Homophone: wiles (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From while +‎ -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.

Adverb

whiles (not comparable)

(archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
- 1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood‎, published 1988, page 14:
  Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.
(archaic or Scotland) meanwhile
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:
  the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour

Derived terms

to-whiles

Conjunction

whiles

(archaic or dialect) while, whilst
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
  Portia: […] Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
  for it so falls out,
  That what we have we prize not to the worth
  Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
  Why, then we rack the value, then we find
  The virtue that possession would not show us
  Whiles it was ours.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

whiles

plural of while

Verb

whiles

third-person singular simple present indicative of while

Scots

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʍəilz/
Rhymes: -əilz

Adverb

whiles

Sometimes
Whiles thay gang tae the strand, but maistly tae the bens- Sometimes they go to the beach, but mostly to the mountains

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