WHEN meaning: Point or period in time

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word when:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

when: Merriam-Webster.com
when: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
when: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
when: Collins English Dictionary
when: Vocabulary.com
WHen, When, When, when, when, when, when, when, when: Wordnik
when: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
when: Wiktionary
when: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
when: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
when: Infoplease Dictionary
when: Dictionary.com
when: Online Etymology Dictionary
when: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
WHEN (AM), When (Red Vincent Hurley song), When (Shania Twain song), When (The Kalin Twins song), When (album), When (band), When: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
When: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
when: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
when: Rhymezone
when: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
when: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
when: Free Dictionary
when: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
when: Dictionary/thesaurus
when: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
When (disambiguation), when: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
WHEN: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

when: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adverb:  (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
▸ adverb:  (interrogative, Internet slang, often humorous) Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
▸ adverb:  At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
▸ adverb:  (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
▸ adverb:  (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
▸ adverb:  (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
▸ noun:  The time at which something happens.

Similar:

whenever, before, after, while, because, unless, then, untiled, since, everytime, more...

Opposite:

never, timeless, always, nevermore, eternity

Types:

morning, afternoon, evening, night, midnight, dawn, dusk, more...

Phrases:

only when, when that, is when, back when, say when, more...

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