all the time

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

all the time (not comparable)

1. (set phrase, duration) Always; constantly; for the complete duration.

   Synonym: at all times

   • 1889 September 11, Mark Twain, “Last Words of Great Men”, in Buffalo Express:

     The public does not wish to be outraged in this way all the time.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

   • 1966, Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent, Petula Clark (vocalist), I Couldn't Live Without Your Love, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (album):

     I couldn't live without your love

     Now, I know you′re really mine

     I gotta have you all the time

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     The study found that there had been as many patent applications for artificial intelligence since 2013 as there were in all the time since the term AI was first used in the 1950s.

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2. (set phrase, frequency) Very often; frequently.
   • 2008 June 26, Joel Stein, “Pirating Axl Rose's Record”, in Time:

     I have never been this excited about having an album. I play it all the time.

Translations

always

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: عمال (ʕammāl)

• Azerbaijani: daim
• Catalan: tota l'estona (ca), sempre (ca)
• Chickasaw: bíyyi'ka
• Danish: hele tiden, altid (da)
• Finnish: koko ajan (fi)
• French: tout le temps (fr)
• Galician: todo o tempo
• Georgian: მუდამ (mudam)
• German: immer (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πάντοτε (pántote), πάντα τὸν χρόνον (pánta tòn khrónon)

• Hungarian: egész idő alatt, mindvégig (hu), egyre (csak)
• Irish: ar feadh an ama, i rith an ama
• Italian: sempre (it)
• Latvian: arvien vēl, visu laiku
• Macedonian: цело време (celo vreme), везден (vezden)
• Navajo: tʼáá áłahjįʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hele tiden, alltid (no)

  Nynorsk: heile tida, alltid

• Ojibwe: apane
• Polish: bez przerwy (pl), cały czas (pl), ciągle (pl)
• Portuguese: o tempo inteiro, o tempo todo
• Romanian: tot timpul
• Russian: всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja)
• Scottish Gaelic: fad na tìde
• Spanish: todo el tiempo, todo el rato, en todo momento
• Swedish: hela tiden (sv), ständigt (sv), jämt (sv)
• Walloon: toltins (wa), tofer (wa), todi (wa)
• West Flemish: hêelsan

frequently

• Azerbaijani: daim
• Catalan: tota l'estona (ca), a cada moment
• Finnish: koko ajan (fi), alituiseen, kaiken aikaa
• French: tout le temps (fr), à longueur de temps (fr)
• Galician: a todas horas, decote (gl)
• Hungarian: folyton (hu), mindig (hu), állandóan (hu), minduntalan (hu), mindegyre (hu), szakadatlanul (hu)
• Irish: ar feadh an ama, i rith an ama
• Italian: spessissimo
• Macedonian: цело време (celo vreme), везден (vezden)
• Norwegian: stadig vekk
• Polish: co chwila (pl), co chwilę (pl), co rusz (pl)
• Portuguese: o tempo inteiro, o tempo todo
• Russian: всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja), ча́сто (ru) (částo)
• Scottish Gaelic: fad na tìde
• Spanish: a cada rato (es), a cada segundo
• Swedish: hela tiden (sv), jämt (sv), ideligen (sv)
• Vietnamese: hoài (vi)
• Yiddish: יעדער מאָנטיק און דאָנערשטיק (yeder montik un donershtik)

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