Moment Meaning
/momən(ʔ)/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA particular point, or relatively small region.
nounA particular point, or relatively small region., A particular point of space; a spot.
Sentence Examples
From the moment that I knew that the university existed, I've wanted to go there.
For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
We are working under extreme pressure at the moment.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher asked the students to wait a ____ before leaving the classroom.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please wait a ____ I just need to finish typing this short email before we go out to help you find your keys.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"...over everything there lay a deposit of heavy white dust, which was only blown off one moment to thicken on another."
— 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7, third paragraph
"Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
""You know, we all have our own lives to live. Now and then we get confused, we become weak and vulnerable. We have to look around for help. Sometimes we get lucky and there's someone who loves us to support us, to help us along. We have a right, being human, to those moments of weakness. We have a right to get confused and ask for help. … But when that help is offered and accepted, we don't have a right to remain confused forever, to keep those who help us standing by in a kind of limbo...""
— 1976, Richard Duprey, Duel on the Wind, part 4, chapter 1
"Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's."
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher asked the students to wait a ____ before leaving the classroom.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please wait a ____ I just need to finish typing this short email before we go out to help you find your keys.