when
/wɛn/ adverb A1- At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time. · When will they arrive?· Do you know when they arrived?
- Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event. · The site's all bugged. Fix when?· Tank class buff when?
- At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances. · He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when.
- At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that. · That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.· Not a week goes by when I don't mourn that loss.
- The time at, on or during which. · I recall when they were called the Greys.· Next year is when we elect a new mayor.
- A circumstance or situation in which. · Love is when you can't get enough of someone.
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Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn when she was only eight years old.
“Except,” thought Elizabeth, “when she goes to Ramsgate.”
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
I had gone on the quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend Danglars.
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