Usually means: Simultaneously occurring during another event.
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  1. meanwhile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. meanwhile: Merriam-Webster
  3. meanwhile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. meanwhile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. meanwhile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. meanwhile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Meanwhile, meanwhile: Wordnik
  8. meanwhile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. meanwhile: Wiktionary
  10. meanwhile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meanwhile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. meanwhile: Dictionary.com
  13. meanwhile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ...Meanwhile, Meanwhile (Camouflage album), Meanwhile (Futurama), Meanwhile (film), Meanwhile (novel), Meanwhile (song), Meanwhile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Meanwhile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. meanwhile: Rhymezone
  17. meanwhile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. meanwhile: FreeDictionary.org
  19. meanwhile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. meanwhile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. meanwhile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meanwhile: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meanwhile: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meanwhile: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The time between two events.
adverb:  During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.
adverb:  During an intervening time; from now until a future time.
adverb:  In contrast to aspects previously mentioned.

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