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since

adv
/sɪn(t)s/

Etymology

From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

  1. inherited from sīþþan
  2. inherited from syns

Definitions

  1. From a specified time in the past.

    • I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.
    • A short/long time since

  2. From

    From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.

    • I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.
    • I'd been working since six o’clock, and I was getting tired.
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

  3. From the time that.

    • I have loved you since I first met you.
    • I've known her since I've lived in her street, but I've not seen her out of the house since her husband died.
    • Since leaving school, I've completely changed.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Because.

      • Since you didn't call, we left without you.
      • Since disbursement is the last step in the process of creating a mortgage instrument, the disbursement date may lag the transaction date by a considerable period.

    2. When or that.

      • O ſir Iohn, doe you remember ſince wee lay all night in the Winde-mill, in S Georges field.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for since. 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