Usually means: While, during; slightly more formal.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. whilst: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whilst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whilst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whilst: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whilst: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whil'st, Whilst, whil'st, whilst, the whilst: Wordnik
  7. whilst: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. whilst: Wiktionary
  9. whilst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whilst: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whilst: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. The whilst, whilst: Dictionary.com
  13. whilst: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Whilst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Whilst: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. whilst: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Whilst: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. whilst: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. whilst, the whilst: Free Dictionary
  20. whilst: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. The whilst, whilst: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. whilst: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whilst: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whilst: Encyclopedia

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adverb:  (archaic or obsolete except dialectal) Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.

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