Whiles

Pronunciation

• enPR: wÄ«lz, IPA: /waɪlz/
• Rhymes: -aɪlz
• Homophones: wiles in accents with the wine-whine merger

Full definition of whiles

Adverb

1. (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
• Witch Wood
2. (archaic or Scotland) meanwhile
• Sir Walter Scottthe good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour

Conjunction

1. (archaic or dialect) while
• 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1, line 217for it so falls out,
  That what we have we prize not to the worth
  Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
  Why, then we rack the value, then we find
  The virtue that possession would not show us
  Whiles it was ours.

Noun

plural

1. Plural of while

Verb

1. whiles

   (third-person singular of while)