then
pronunciation
How to pronounce then in British English:
UK [ðen]
How to pronounce then in American English:
US [ðen]
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- Noun:
- that time; that moment
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- Adjective:
- at a specific prior time
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- Adverb:
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
- in that case or as a consequence
- at that time
Word Origin
- then
- then: [OE] Then was formed from the ancient demonstrative base *ta-, which also underlies English that and there. Its West Germanic relatives include German dann and Dutch dan. It is ultimately the same word as than.=> than, the, there
- then (adv.)
- adverb of time, Old English þanne, þænne, þonne, from Proto-Germanic *thana- (cognates: Old Frisian thenne, Old Saxon thanna, Dutch dan, Old High German danne, German dann), from PIE demonstrative pronoun root *to- (see the). As a conjunction, "in that case, therefore," in Old English. As an adjective, "being at that time," from 1580s. As a noun from early 14c. For further sense development, see than. Similar evolutions in other Germanic languages; Dutch uses dan in both senses, but German has dann (adv.) "then," denn (conj.) "than." Now and then "at various times" is attested from 1550s; earlier then and then (c. 1200).
Synonym
to furthermore addition on yet in as but additionally still also other more moreover a however further else hand the therewith again boot well besides side too bonus
on resultingly that account thereafter for so this hence as thus therefore reason of result because or a consequently
Antonym
Example
- 1. Then she started throwing up .
- 2. His wife then asked me .
- 3. Then it started to rain .
- 4. What then is productive debt ?
- 5. Then we began our climb .