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pastime🔊

Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

📑 Synonyms: kill-time
💬 Quotations
Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.

(obsolete) To sport; to amuse oneself.

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