whilst meaning

EN[waɪlst] [hwaɪlst]
US

Definition of whilst in English Dictionary

• ConjunctionSUF-st
  1. (Britain, rare or literary in North America) While, at the same time.
     1. The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, or I shall so bemeet thee with thy yard as thou shall think on prating whilst thou liv'st! — Shakespeare.
     • If the post had been about *plaid* doc martens, I would have said Schuh, right smack dab in Glasgow's downtown section. I had several shoegasms whilst there.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Conjunctions
  2. Morphemes
     • Suffixes
       • Words by suffix
         • Words suffixed with -st
         • Words suffixed with -t

Other Vocabulary

1. en whist
2. fr whist
3. en whylst
4. en whilest
5. en while