English

Adverb

whiles ‎(not comparable)

1. (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
   • 1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood, published 1988, page 14:

     Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.

2. (archaic or Scotland) meanwhile
   • Sir Walter Scott

     the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour

Conjunction

whiles

1. (archaic or dialect) while
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1, line 217

     for 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

whiles

1. plural of while

Verb

whiles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of while

Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīlz, IPA^(key): /waɪlz/
• Rhymes: -aɪlz

Adverb

whiles

1. Sometimes

   Whiles thay gang tae the strand, but maistly tae the bens- Sometimes they go to the beach, but mostly to the mountains