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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. for a short time;
- Example: "sit down and stay awhile"
- Example: "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"
- Example: "the baby was quiet for a while"
[syn: awhile, for a while]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

for a while
    adv 1: for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they
           settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby
           was quiet for a while" [syn: awhile, for a while]