then
advEtymology
* As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony. * Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). * Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (“threshing-floor”). * As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of 鄧 /邓 (dèng) (see Deng) and 田 (tián) (see Tian).
Definitions
At that time.
- He was happy then.
- And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Soon afterward.
- He fixed it, then left.
- Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
- And then came an invitation to tonight's ball.
Next in order of place.
- There are three green ones, then a blue one.
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In addition
In addition; also; besides.
In that case.
- If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
- Is it 12 o’clock already? Then it’s time for me to leave.
- You don’t like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
At the same time
At the same time; on the other hand.
- That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
- The forms inheritress and inheritrix are used only in literature, and then but rarely.
Used to contradict an assertion.
- ‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’ ‘They're not then.’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They're –’ ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.
Being so at that time.
- He had met his then girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.
- It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.
- It’s been nearly four years since China put tariffs on American-grown soybeans during a tit-for-tat trade war with then-President Donald Trump – and they remain in place despite the change in administrations.
That time.
- It will be finished before then.
Obsolete spelling of than.
- […]his hand, more ſad [i.e., heavy, hard] then lomp of lead,[…]
- Clow[ne]. O they haue lyud long on the almſbaſket of wordes. I maruaile thy M.hath not eaten thee for a worde, for thou art not ſo long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: Thou art eaſier ſwallowed then a flapdragon.
Misspelling of than.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymand then
- synonymfollowed by
- synonymas a result
- synonymtherefore
- synonymtherewhile
- synonymsimultaneously
- synonymensuingly
- synonymfollowingly
- synonymhereafter
- synonymsyne
- synonymthen
- antonymbefore
- antonympreviously
- antonymprior to
Derived
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No curated loop yet for then. 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