: the scheduled or actual time at which a show or something likened to a show begins
Examples of showtime in a Sentence
We have five minutes until showtime.
Showtime is in five minutes.
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Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, and more cities where the finale is playing saw similar demand, and all of these sales took place days before showtime.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
An overhead view of the stage shows the crew setting up instruments before showtime.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Guests will go through 26 interactive scenes looking for the music notes before showtime.
—Megan Dubois, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
By showtime, the platform’s tumultuous year already seemed to be a thing of the past.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
An overhead view of the stage shows the crew setting up instruments before showtime.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Guests will go through 26 interactive scenes looking for the music notes before showtime.
—Megan Dubois, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
By showtime, the platform’s tumultuous year already seemed to be a thing of the past.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Showtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/showtime. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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showtime
noun
show·time
ˈshō-ˌtīm 
: the scheduled or actual time at which a show or something likened to a show begins
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