Awhile
Synonyms for awhile
adv for a short period
briefly
momentarily
temporarily
for a bit
for a little while
for a moment
for a spell
for a while
for the moment
not for long
transiently
Usage Notes
The adverb awhile is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase a while is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile).
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