simultaneously

English

Etymology

simultaneous +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪməlˈteɪnɪəsli/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪməlˈteɪnɪəsli/

Adverb

simultaneously (not comparable)

1. Occurring at the same time.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:

     The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Synonyms

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Related terms

• simultaneity
• concurrently

Translations

occurring at the same time

• Bulgarian: едновременно (bg) (ednovremenno)
• Catalan: simultàniament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同時地, 同時地 (tóngshí de)

• Czech: zároveň (cs)
• Danish: samtidigt
• Dutch: tegelijkertijd (nl), tegelijk (nl), simultaan (nl), gelijktijdig (nl)
• Esperanto: samtempe
• Finnish: yhtä aikaa (fi), samanaikaisesti (fi)
• French: simultanément (fr), en même temps (fr)
• Galician: simultaneamente
• Georgian: ერთდროულად (ertdroulad), ერთსა და იმავე დროს (ertsa da imave dros)
• German: gleichzeitig (de)
• Greek: ταυτόχρονα (el) (taftóchrona)

  Ancient: ἅμα (háma)

• Haitian Creole: anmenmtan
• Hindi: एक बार में (ek bār mẽ)
• Hungarian: egyidejűleg (hu), egyszerre (hu), egy időben
• Italian: simultaneamente (it), allo stesso tempo
• Japanese: 同時に (どうじに, dōji ni), 一斉に (issei ni)

• Kapampangan: agnan-agnan
• Korean: 동시에 (dongsi-e)
• Latin: simul (la), una (la)
• Latvian: vienlaikus
• Norwegian: samtidig (no)

  Nynorsk: samstundes

• Persian: همزمان‎ (fa), در آن واحد‎ (dar ân-e vâhed)
• Polish: równocześnie (pl), jednocześnie (pl)
• Portuguese: simultaneamente (pt)
• Romanian: simultan (ro), în mod simultan
• Russian: одновре́менно (ru) (odnovrémenno)
• Sanskrit: साकम् (sa) (sākam)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏мулта̄но, исто̀времено, исто̀добно

  Roman: sȉmultāno (sh), istòvremeno (sh), istòdobno (sh)

• Spanish: simultáneamente (es)
• Swedish: samtidigt (sv)
• Tagalog: sabay-sabay
• Telugu: ఒకేసారి (okēsāri)
• Ukrainian: одноча́сно (odnočásno)
• Urdu: ایک بار میں‎ (ek bār mẽ)