Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun meantime
1 sense of meantime
Sense 1
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag -- (the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government")
=> time interval, interval -- (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)
Synonyms of adv meantime
1 sense of meantime
Sense 1
meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime -- (during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified")