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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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next in order of place: Standing beside Charlie is my uncle, then my cousin, then my brother.
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in addition; besides; also: I love my job, and then it pays so well.
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in that case; as a consequence; in those circumstances: If you're sick, then you should stay in bed.
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since that is so; as it appears; therefore: You have, then, found the mistake? You are leaving tonight then.
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adjective
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being; being such; existing or being at the time indicated: the then prime minister.

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noun
10.
that time: We have not been back since then. Till then, farewell.
Idioms
11.
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.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English then(ne), than(n)e, Old English thonne, thanne, thænne; compare than; akin to that

Can be confused: than, then (see usage note at than).

Synonyms
8. See therefore.

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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
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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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Slang Dictionary

then and there definition


  1. mod.
    right then. : Right then and there, he pulled up his shirt and showed everyone the jagged scar.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

then and there

Also, there and then. At that precise time and place; on the spot. For example, When the board questioned his judgment again, he resigned then and there. The first term was first recorded in 1442, the variant in 1496.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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