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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
during
preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
during the evening
▪ Later, during the evening, fighting broke out near the palace.
in/during term time
▪ Parents need permission to take their children on holiday during term time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
During the second week in December, the jobless rate fell by two percent.
During the summer we spend a lot more time out of doors.
During the summer, she worked as a lifeguard.
▪ At some time during the weekend someone broke into the building.
▪ Henry died during the night.
▪ Terry's work has improved a lot during the last three months.
▪ There are always significant traffic problems during commuting hours.
▪ There will be six meetings during the college's winter quarter.
▪ This place was an air-raid shelter during the war.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
During

During \Dur"ing\, prep. [Orig., p. pr. of dure.] In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
during

late 14c., durand, present participle of obsolete verb duren "to last, endure" (mid-13c.), from Old French durer, from Latin durare "endure" (see endure). During the day really is "while the day endures," and the usage is a transference into English of a Latin ablative absolute (compare durante bello "during (literally 'enduring') the war").

Wiktionary
during

prep. For all of a given time interval. vb. (present participle of dure English)

WordNet

Usage examples of "during".

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

Malcolm interrupted, realizing this must be the Peter Abigail had called for during her delirium.

The aborigines have an overwhelming advantage in the Misty Mire during the Rains.

Yet during abreaction at one point she was acting out holding the knife and doing the slashing.

Bally reports a somewhat similar instance, in which, three months after ingestion, during an attack of peripneumonia, a foreign body was extracted from an abscess of the thorax, between the 2d and 3d ribs.

It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.

Quite prudently, he had absented himself from the country during the deaths of William and of Mary.

Whenever the leaves remain inflected during several days over seeds, it is clear that they absorb some matter from them.

We may, however, infer from the time during which the tentacles remained inflected,from the changed colour of some of the glands,and from the injury done to others, that matter had been absorbed from the cheese.

That some matter is absorbed from the gluten, we have clear evidence in the length of time during which the tentacles remain inflected, and in the greatly changed colour of the glands.

Miss A had almost certainly told Graham Letts that she had been abused by her father and her brother at the age of twelve, and she may well have told Rosemary West exactly the same thing during their conversations in Cromwell Street.

The whole middle expanse of Asia was not academically conquered for Orientalism until, during the later eighteenth century, Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit.

Much useful comparative information was obtained during the following minute of suspended ecstasy, during which the female tongues parted into thousands of fine tentacles, exploring every accessible cavity of the male bodies.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Since the accession of Commodus, the Roman world had experienced, during the term of forty years, the successive and various vices of four tyrants.