• n.
    ⦿a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
    lexical concept
  • I need to rest for a piece
  • a patch of bad weather
  • a spell of good weather
  • he was here for a little while

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:while
wn:interlingual indexili:i117367

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.time
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • patchpiecespellwhile
  • while