Simultaneously
/ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adverbAt the same time.
Sentence Examples
Both alarms rang simultaneously.
She translated and listened simultaneously.
The teams started simultaneously.
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Word Origin & History
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
“The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.”
— 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
“Numa was about to charge—there was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a number of things happened, almost simultaneously—the lion sprang from his ambush toward the retreating black—Tarzan cried out in warning—and the black turned just in time to see Numa halted in mid-flight by a slender strand of grass rope, the noosed end of which had fallen cleanly about his neck.”
— 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Both alarms rang ____.