Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun meanwhile

1 sense of meanwhile

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 meanwhile

2 senses of meanwhile

Sense 1
meanwhile -- (at the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back at the ranch...")

Sense 2
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")