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adverb
A1
/wɛn/
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
interrogative
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
Internet, humorous, interrogative, often
At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
relative
The time at, on or during which.
A circumstance or situation in which.
informal
when
At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
+4 meanings
when
That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to ‘Say when’.
when
The time at which something happens.
when
What time; which time.
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