Other forms: timetables, timetabled
A timetable is the grid that says what happens when. The one on the classroom wall with maths at nine and history after lunch; the one on the station board showing the 6:42 to Manchester and the 7:15 that goes the slow way round.
It is a British word — Americans say schedule for the same thing. A timetable is public and fixed: it belongs to a school, a railway, a bus company, and you fit yourself around it. The word also stretches to any plan spread over time: a timetable for the repairs, a timetable for leaving. There is a verb too, and it lives mostly in the passive — the exam is timetabled for Thursday, two lessons were timetabled against each other. Say it as one word, no space and no hyphen.
1nountimetableA chart showing which lesson or activity happens at which hour of the day and week.~2%
“Her new timetable has double physics on Friday afternoon.”
synonyms: schedule
2nounlistA list of the times at which trains, buses or planes leave and arrive.~58%
“He checked the timetable and found the last bus had already gone.”
3nounplanA plan setting out when the stages of a piece of work should happen.~38%
“The council agreed a timetable for finishing the bridge by spring.”
4verbarrangeTo arrange for something to take place at a particular time.~2%
“The meeting has been timetabled for the first Monday of the month.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 10 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
timetable is a plan of times.
Also accepted in games: schedule
From time + table.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA