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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishthen(ne),than(ne), fromOld Englishþonne,þanne,þænne(then, at that time), fromProto-West Germanic*þan, fromProto-Germanic*þan(at that (time), then), from earlier*þam, fromProto-Indo-European*tóm, accusative masculine of*só(demonstrative pronoun, that).

Cognate withDutchdan(then),Germandann(then),Swedish(then),Icelandicþá(then).Doublet ofthan.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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then (notcomparable)

  1. (temporal location) At thattime.
    He was happythen.
  2. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
    He fixed it,then left.
    Turn left,then right,then right again,then keep going until you reach the service station.
  3. (sequence) Next in order of place.
    There are three green ones,then a blue one.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
    • 2013 July 19,Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page30:
      Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven.Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
  4. In addition;also;besides.
    • 1908, E Young, “Chapter 17 White elephants”, inPeeps at Many Lands: Siam, London: Adam and Charles Black, page75:
      Another legend says that now and again in the world's history a monarch appears who conquers and rules every nation under the sun.[]Then many of the Siamese believe that the animal is inhabited by the soul of some great man of the past[]
  5. (conjunctive) 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?
    • 1859,Edward Fitzgerald,The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
      And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
      The Tavern shouted — "Openthen the Door!
      You know how little while we have to stay,
      And, once departed, may return no more."
    • 1749,The Universal Magazine, volume 4, page321:
      That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; /Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears:[]
  6. (sequence)At the same time;on the other hand.
    That’s a nice shirt, butthen, so is the other one.
  7. (UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
    • 2001,Eric Malpass,At the Height of the Moon[1], page28:
      ‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’
      ‘They're notthen.’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They're –’
      ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.

Synonyms

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Translations

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at that time
soon afterward
next in order
in that case
at the same time; on the other hand

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  • (next in order):if

Adjective

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then (notcomparable)

  1. Being so at that time.
    • 2011, Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, Peter Fonagy,Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide, page124:
      He had met histhen girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.
    • 2024 October 2,Brian Stelter, “43 million watched Walz-Vance VP debate, in significant drop from 2020 matchup”, inCNN[2]:
      Four years ago, 57 million tuned in to the only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle between Harris andthen-Vice President Mike Pence.

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being so at that time

Noun

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then

  1. That time
    It will be finished beforethen.

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that time
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Conjunction

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then

  1. Obsolete spelling ofthan.
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, inThe Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC, stanza 30,page299:
      []his hand, more ſad [i.e., heavy, hard]then lomp of lead,[]
    • 1595,Ouids Banquet of Sence. A Coronet for his Miſtreſſe Philoſophie, and his amorous Zodiacke. VVith a tranſlation of a Latine coppie, written by a Fryer, Anno Dom. 1400, London: I. R. for Richard Smith:
      And as a Pible caſt into a Spring, / Wee ſee a ſort of trembling cirkles riſe, / One forming other in theyr iſſuing / Till ouer all the Fount they circulize, / So this perpetuall-motion-making kiſſe, / Is propagate through all my faculties, / And makes my breaſt an endleſſe Fount of bliſſe, / Of which, if Gods could drink, theyr matchleſſe fare / Would make them much more bleſſedthen they are.
    • c.1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e.,William Shakespeare],A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. [] (First Quarto), London: [] W[illiam] W[hite] forCut[h]bert Burby, published1598,→OCLC; republished asShakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles;no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, [],[1880],→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
      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 ſwallowedthen a flapdragon.
    • 1611,Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, inEpistles [], volume III, London: [] [William Stansby andWilliam Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, [],→OCLC, 5th decade,pages95–96:
      To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie,then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
  2. Misspelling ofthan.

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Swedish

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Pronoun

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then

  1. Obsolete spelling ofden.

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading ofChinese(SV:thuyên). The obsolete formthoen is attested in some texts.

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Noun

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(classifiercái) then (,,)

  1. bar,peg (used forlocking a door)
  2. latch

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Zou

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Noun

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then

  1. maggot

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