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duration

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An amount of time or a particular time interval.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
  • She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
  • an intermission of 15 minutes' duration

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, singular, uncountable

Examples

  • Rationing will last at least for the duration.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, finance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

continuance in time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the ceremony was of short duration
  • he complained about the length of time required

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: length

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: temporal property

Narrower terms: longness, lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction, endlessness, shortness, brevity, briefness, transience, permanence, permanency, impermanence, impermanency

5

noun

Meaning 5

the property of enduring or continuing in time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: continuance

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: time

6

noun

Meaning 6

the period of time during which something continues

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: continuance

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: time period, period of time, period

Narrower terms: clocking, longueur, residence time, span, stretch, stint, time scale, value, time value, note value, rule

History

Etymology

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

Across languages

Translations

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُدَّة (mudda) — amount of time
  • Asturian: duración — amount of time
  • Azerbaijani: davam — amount of time
  • Azerbaijani: müddət — amount of time
  • Azerbaijani: sürək — amount of time
  • Bashkir: оҙайлыҡ (oźaylıq) — amount of time
  • Bashkir: дауамлылыҡ (dawamlılıq) — amount of time
  • Belarusian: праця́гласць (pracjáhlascʹ) — amount of time
  • Bulgarian: продължи́телност (prodǎlžítelnost) — amount of time
  • Bulgarian: времетра́ене (vremetráene) — amount of time
  • Catalan: durada — amount of time
  • Catalan: duració — amount of time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 時間 /时间 (shíjiān) — amount of time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 長短 /长短 (chángduǎn) — amount of time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 為期 /为期 (wéiqī) — amount of time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 期間 /期间 (qījiān) — amount of time
  • Czech: trvání — amount of time
  • Danish: varighed — amount of time
  • Dutch: tijdsduur — amount of time
  • Dutch: duur — amount of time
  • Finnish: kesto — amount of time
  • Finnish: aikaväli — amount of time
  • French: durée — amount of time
  • Galician: dura — amount of time
  • Galician: duración — amount of time
  • Georgian: ხანგრძლივობა (xangrʒlivoba) — amount of time
  • Georgian: ვადა (vada) — amount of time
  • Georgian: დროის შუალედი (drois šualedi) — amount of time
  • German: Dauer — amount of time
  • Greek: διάρκεια (diárkeia) — amount of time
  • Hebrew: מֶשֶׁךְ (méshekh) — amount of time
  • Hungarian: időtartam — amount of time
  • Icelandic: tímalengd — amount of time
  • Italian: durata — amount of time
  • Japanese: 期間 (kikan) — amount of time
  • Japanese: 存続 (sonzoku) — amount of time
  • Korean: 기간 (gigan) — amount of time
  • Korean: 지속 (jisok) — amount of time
  • Lithuanian: trukmė — amount of time
  • Macedonian: траење (traenje) — amount of time
  • Macedonian: времетраење (vremetraenje) — amount of time
  • Malay: masa — amount of time
  • Malay: tempoh — amount of time
  • Malay: durasi — amount of time
  • Malay: jangka masa — amount of time
  • Middle English: stage — amount of time
  • Norwegian Bokmål: varighet — amount of time
  • Occitan: durada — amount of time
  • Persian: مدت (moddat) — amount of time
  • Persian: درازنای (derâznây) — amount of time
  • Polish: czas trwania — amount of time
  • Polish: trwanie — amount of time
  • Portuguese: duração — amount of time
  • Romanian: durată — amount of time
  • Russian: продолжи́тельность (prodolžítelʹnostʹ) — amount of time
  • Russian: дли́тельность (dlítelʹnostʹ) — amount of time
  • Serbo-Croatian: трајање — amount of time
  • Serbo-Croatian: trajanje — amount of time
  • Slovak: trvanie — amount of time
  • Slovene: trajanje — amount of time
  • Spanish: duración — amount of time
  • Swedish: tidslängd — amount of time
  • Swedish: varaktighet — amount of time
  • Telugu: గడువు (gaḍuvu) — amount of time
  • Turkish: süre — amount of time
  • Ukrainian: трива́лість (tryválistʹ) — amount of time
  • Urdu: دَورانِیَہ (daurāniya) — amount of time
  • Welsh: ystod — amount of time
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