then
/ðɛn/ adverb A1- At that time. · He was happy then.
- Soon afterward. · He fixed it, then left.· Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
- Next in order of place. · There are three green ones, then a blue one.
- 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.
- 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.
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“Well, then, with the first money I touch, I mean you to have a small house, with a garden in which to plant clematis, nasturtiums, and honeysuckle.
There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?
“Then I have leave?”
“Then, for the present, M.
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