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adverb
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at that time: Prices were lower then.
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immediately or soon afterward: The rain stopped and then started again.
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next in order of time: We ate, then we started home.
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at the same time: At first the water seemed blue, then gray.
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EXPANDnext in order of place: Standing beside Charlie is my uncle, then my cousin, then my brother.
adjective
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being; being such; existing or being at the time indicated: the then prime minister.
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noun
Idioms10.
that time: We have not been back since then. Till then, farewell.
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but then, but on the other hand: I found their conversation very dull, but then I have different tastes.
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then and there, at that precise time and place; at once; on the spot: I started to pack my things right then and there. Also, there and then.
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Word Origin & History
then
adverb of time, from O.E. þanne, þænne, þonne, from P.Gmc. *thana- (cf. O.Fris. thenne, O.S. thanna, Du. dan, O.H.G. danne, Ger. dann), from PIE demonstrative pronoun root *to- (see the). For further sense development, see
EXPAND than. Similar evolutions in other Gmc. languages; Du. uses dan in both senses, but Ger. has dann (adv.) "then," denn (conj.) "than." Now and then "at various times" is attested from c.1550; earlier then and then (c.1200).
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