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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: (h)wīlz, IPA(key): /(h)waɪlz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪlz
- Homophone: wiles (wine–whine merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix);[1] compare whilst.
Adverb
[edit]whiles (not comparable)
- (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
- 1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood[1], 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
Conjunction
[edit]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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- 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.
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]whiles
Verb
[edit]whiles
- third-person singular simple present indicative of while
References
[edit]- ^ “whiles, n., conj., and adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Scots
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]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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