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Definition of "all-time" []

  • Exceeding all others up to the present time: an all-time speed skating record. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "all-time" in a sentence
  • "There have been 250 in the American and National leagues all-time, which is roughly a couple a year."
  • "In 1952, 75 percent of Americans told Gallup pollsters that religion was “very important” in their lives, an all-time record."
  • "In that group, weekly church attendance skyrocketed from 31 percent in February 1950 to an all-time record for young adults of 51 percent in April 1957, an astonishing rate of change in seven years, implying millions of new churchgoers every year."