pass-time

A form of pastime — Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

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Meanings

nounpass-time (plural pass-times)

plural pass-times

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of pastime.

    For as to the devotees of the circulating libraries, I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.

    1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria, footnote, published 1889, page 24
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pass-time,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pass-time.

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