Meanings
- Formerly.
At one time, I could walk ten miles in a day, but I can't any longer.
1 more example
But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704Synonyms: formerly
- Simultaneously, at once.
A bigamist has two spouses at one time.
Synonyms: in the past, previously, simultaneously, together, at the same time
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseFormerly.
prepositional phraseSimultaneously, at once.
antonym(s) of
antonym(s) of “simultaneously”
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish kerran, ennen
- kerranformerly
- ennenformerly
- kerrallasimultaneously
Latin quondam
- quondamformerly
Polish kiedyś, dawniej
- kiedyśformerly
- dawniejformerly
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at one time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20one%20time
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