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because

conj
/bɪkəz/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bi Proto-West Germanic *bī Old English bī Middle English by Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causabor. Old French causebor. Middle English cause Middle English bi cause English because From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.

  1. derived from par cause
  2. inherited from bi cause

Definitions

  1. By or for the cause that

    By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

    • I hid myself because I was afraid.
    • I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
    • In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

  2. As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.

    • It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
    • I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.

  3. So that, in order that.

    • Simon[…]set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. On account, for sake [with of].

      • My life is ruined because of you!

    2. For the reason [with that].

      • And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.

    3. Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer to a question begun with "why", usually…

      Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer to a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".

    4. On account of, because of.

      • He rejected me because revenge, I guess.
      • It doesn't work because reasons.

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Derived

because is why, because you touch yourself at night, for because, becauseness, because of, because one can, because you say so, just because, no because

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for because. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA