at one time
In the past
At one time means formerly or in the past: At one time, this neighborhood was all farmland.
The phrase can also mean simultaneously: The system can handle multiple requests at one time.
Context usually makes clear which sense applies—the first looks backward to how things were, the second describes concurrent action.
- formerlyIn the past
- onceAt one time
- earlierAt a prior time
- long agoIn the distant past
- way back whenA long-ago time
years ago · previously · changed · erstwhile · bygone · back when · in the past · ancient · all at once · medieval · Renaissance · simultaneously · ago · memory · before · colonial · prehistoric · suddenly
at one timecurrently
At this moment
now · at present · presently · nowadays · today
at one timestill
Unmoving, or continuing
always · to this day · perpetually · ever since · all along
at one timein the future
At a subsequent time
someday · eventually · one day · at some point · down the road
one, time, times, timeless, timer, oneself, timely, timed, timing