# times

Pronunciation: say "TYMZ" US/UK /taɪmz/, AUS /tɑemz/

## Noun

1. Plural of time. — plural of time
   - Simple: Plural of time. Use it when talking about more than one moment, occasion, or period.
   - _The old bridge has been repaired many times over the decades._
   - _He read the letter four times before deciding how to reply._
3. The prevailing conditions or circumstances that mark a particular period.
   - Simple: The way life is during a certain period in history.
   - _The novel captures the desperate times of the Great Depression._
   - _Changing times forced the old family business to adapt or close._
6. The events, experiences, and circumstances that make up a person's life.
   - Simple: The events and experiences of a person's life.
   - _Her memoir recounts the life and times of a frontier doctor._
   - _Historians have pieced together the life and times of forgotten inventors._

## Preposition

2. Multiplied by; placed between two numbers to show that one is multiplied by the other.
   - Simple: Used to multiply one number by another.
   - _Five times eight is forty._
   - _If you take seven times nine, you get sixty-three._

## Verb

4. Third-person singular simple present indicative of time. — third-person singular simple present indicative of time
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of time. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _The referee times the match from the sideline._
   - _A skilled comedian times each joke for the biggest laugh._
5. To multiply one quantity by another. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To multiply one number by another.
   - _If you times the number of guests by two, you'll have enough plates._
   - _My son kept timesing the width by itself instead of by the length, so every area came out wrong._

## Origin

The multiplication sense comes from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/times (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).