during
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
during/ˈdjʊərɪŋ/
▶preposition throughout the course or duration of.
■ at a particular point in the course of.
– origin ME: pres. part. of the obs. verb dure ‘last, endure, extend’, via OFr. from L. durare (see duration).
'during' also found in these Oxford entries:
abruption
- active site
- acupoint
- aeroshell
- aesthetic
- aestivation
- airtime
- aleatory
- alimentary canal
- altar boy
- amnesty
- anaphase
- Anderson shelter
- angulate
- antenatal
- anthem
- apnoea
- as
- asperges
- assassin
- atresia
- atrophy
- Augustan
- bail
- ballboy
- ballon
- banderilla
- barotitis
- barre
- base hospital
- baste
- batterie
- bed-wetting
- before
- Bellini
- bid
- bill
- blackout
- blackshirt
- blinker
- bloodletting
- board
- boarder
- boarding school
- body double
- Braxton Hicks contractions
- break
- Briton
- bruxism
- bundle
