when
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Definition
adv (English)
1. (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.Examples: "When will they arrive?"; "Do you know when they arrived?"; "I don't know when they arrived."interrogativenot-comparable
2. (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.Examples: "The site's all bugged. Fix when?"; "Tank class buff when?"; "My fridge even restocks itself these days. Glorious AI overlords when?"Internethumorousinterrogativenot-comparableoften
3. (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.Examples: "That was the day when the Twin Towers fell."; "Not a week goes by when I don't mourn that loss."; "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible."not-comparablerelative
4. (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.Examples: "I recall when they were called the Greys."; "Next year is when we elect a new mayor."not-comparable
5. (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.Examples: "Love is when you can't get enough of someone."informalnot-comparable
pron (English)
1. (interrogative) What time; which time.Examples: "Since when do I need your permission?"; "[...] ſhortly [...] I'le reſolue you [...] / Theſe happend accidents: till when, be cheerefull [...]"; "Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse A great deep cup with heav'nly nectar fill'd, The greatest, deepest cup in Jove's great house, (For Jove himself had so expressly will'd) He drank off all, nor let one drop be spill'd; Since when, his brain that had before been dry, Became the well-spring of all poetry."interrogative
intj (English)
1. (often humorous) 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'.Examples: "When we go out to a restaurant, we're the guys who never say "when" when the waiter is grinding fresh pepper on our salads."; "He keeps the bottle in the top bureau drawer; he takes it out, and two glasses, and pours. Say when. When, please."; "Producers have the power to say "when" when the actress involved is too stressed to continue. That's responsible filmmaking."humorousoften
2. (obsolete) Expressing impatience.Examples: "Why when I ſay?[…]Off with my boots, you rogues: you villaines, when?[…]Out you rogue[…]"; "Set parſon, ſet, the dice die in my hand: / VVhen parſon, vvhen! vvhat can ye finde no more?"; "VVhy vvhen? begin Sir: I muſt ſtay your leiſure."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary