Sentence examples for word for time from inspiring English sources

Most of Christianity calls its places of worship churches; many religions use temple, a word derived in English from the Latin word for time, because of the importance to the Romans of the proper time of sacrifices.

In a number of languages the standard word for "weather" is exactly the same as the word for "time": thus French le temps, Romanian timpul, Hungarian időjárás (literally "the walking of time"), to name a few.

The fact that, for example, the Amondawa people of the Amazon have no word for "time" or that neither Gaelic nor Latin has precise equivalents for "yes" or "no", surely changes how those speakers make their way in the world.

I don't know what commitment means to you, but to me it's just another fancy word for "time" — the very thing you said I wouldn't have to spend along with money.

The Kronos Quartet — it's name taken from the Greek word for "time" — has, however, beaten the clock.

For most of our history, humans have lived in far greater harmony with time's slow passage; indeed, there are indigenous cultures -- the Indonesian Moken people, for example -- that have no word for time.

As part of the ancient Egyptians' twinned world view, there were two words for time: neheh and djet.

The ancient Greeks had two words for time: kronos, chronological time, and kairos, which is often translated as "the right time" and cannot be measured.

Whorf claimed that they didn't have any words for time – no direct translation for the noun time itself, no grammatical constructions indicating the past or future – and therefore could not conceive of it.

The ancient Greeks had two words for time.

It is the place where the zeitgeist is just a combination of the German words for "time" and "ghost".