"at the time" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} at the time, {{en-PP}} at the time
  1. Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past. Related terms: back in the day Translations (at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past): en aquell moment (Catalan), en el seu moment (Catalan), 當時 (Chinese Cantonese), 当时 (dong¹ si⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), v té době (Czech), tehdy (Czech), dengang (Danish), toen (Dutch), tiutempe (Esperanto), aikanaan (Finnish), silloin (Finnish), à l’époque (French), zu der Zeit (German), damals (German), allora (Italian), ntlëuta (Ladin), den gang (Norwegian Bokmål), dengang (english: superseded?) (Norwegian Bokmål), den gong (Norwegian Nynorsk), w tamtym czasie (Polish), naquela hora (english: (recent)) (Portuguese), aquela hora (Portuguese), na hora (Portuguese), naquela época (english: (non-recent)) (Portuguese), aquela época (Portuguese), na época (Portuguese), à época [formal] (Portuguese), en ese momento (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-at_the_time-en-prep_phrase-kJUgo2HM Categories (other): Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header

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      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
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      "word": "zu der Zeit"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "damals"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "allora"
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      "word": "ntlëuta"
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      "word": "den gang"
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      "english": "superseded?",
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      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "den gong"
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      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
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      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "aquela hora"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "aquela época"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past",
      "word": "na época"
    },
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