awhile

adverbcommon in dialogue

//əˈwaɪl//
//əˈʍaɪl//

For some time; for a short time.

adverb

1
For some time; for a short time.
Sit with me awhile.
Take two cupfuls of rolled oats, put in bread pan, turn on four cupfuls of boiling water, stir for awhile.
Engine No. 18 went off into a shed to rest awhile, and No. 7, a precisely similar one, backed on to the train in her place.
The Negroes, having waited for the white people to go upstairs, began to come in. “Whoa now, just a minute,” said a club member, holding up his walking stick. “Just don’t start up them there stairs yet awhile.”
2
In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process.
Can I get you a drink awhile?

Etymology

From Old English āne (“(for) a”) hwīle (“while”).

awesome · Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.awful · Very bad.awfully · Badly, terribly.

awhile · For some time; for a short time.

awkward · Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.AWOL · Absent without official leave (permission).aww · Elongated form of aw.

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