The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word AGES , but the solution may also be YEARS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Quite a while crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
AGES | 54 % | 4 |
EON | 19 % | 3 |
YEARS | 10 % | 5 |
EONS | 7 % | 4 |
MONTHS | 3 % | 6 |
DAYS | 3 % | 4 |
HOURS | 1 % | 5 |
WEEKS | 1 % | 5 |
AEON | 1 % | 4 |
Why may YEARS be the right solution?
The answer "YEARS" is the right solution because "quite a while" suggests a long period of time, and years are commonly associated with a significant duration.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Quite a while
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- long time
- ages
- forever
- perennial
- permanent
- eternity
- continuous
- perpetuate
- continual
- ongoing
- lasting
- constantly
Crossword Answer definitions
AGES noun- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- One of the stages of life.
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
- A period of one hundred years; a century.
- The people who live during a particular period.
- A generation.
- A long time.
- A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
- The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- A long time.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result AGES
- Bronze and Iron
- Dark or Middle follower
- Many moons
- Matures into a SAGE?
- Mellows
- Quite a while
- Gets older
- Gets on
- Iron and Ice
- Matures
More clues leading to the result EON
- A billion years
- A month of Sundays
- Eternity
- Long, long time
- Many eras
- One billion years in ONE?
- Roughly forever
- A lo-o-ong time
- Age
- Ages and ages
More clues leading to the result YEARS
- "The ___"; Virginia Woolf novel
- A coon's age
- Long time
- Sophomore and junior, e.g.
- Twelve month periods
- Earth orbits
- A dog's age
- The time of one's life?
- Time (seemingly) in between checks, for a freelancer
- Quite some time
More clues leading to the result EONS
- Forever
- Forever, seemingly
- Geologic times
- Millions of years
- Time periods
- Ages
- Long periods of time
- Roughly forever
- Years and years and years and ...
- Wait at the DMV, it seems
More clues leading to the result MONTHS
- Big stretch
- Adar and Elul, for two
- Quite a while
- Lunar periods, roughly
- Trimester parts
- Cronus' twelve
- Calendar divisions
- Wall calendar pages
- Fairly long time
- Quite some time
More clues leading to the result DAYS
- "Death Valley __"
- "__ of Our Lives"
- Calendar squares
- Clarence and Doris
- Salad or dog follower
- Calendric units
- "Dog ___ Are Over" (Florence + The Machine)
- "The Twelve ___ of Christmas"
- Light times
- Cell-wall tally
More clues leading to the result HOURS
- Clock measurements
- Storefront info
- 1999 Pulitzer winner, with "The"
- Store-window posting
- Paycheck information
- Periods lasting fifty minutes, on some campuses
- 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., e.g.
- Day divisions
- 2002 Nicole Kidman film, with "The"
- Workweek tally
More clues leading to the result WEEKS
- Pay periods
- "Two ___" (FKA twigs single)
- Units of time
- They last for days
- Long wait for repairs
- Time
- Work units
- Pay periods, often
- Payroll periods, often
- Typical pay periods