so
/soʊ/ interjection C2- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic. · So, let's go home.· So, what'll you have?
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner. · "You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question. · What are you doing? / So I'm just fixing this shelf.· What time does the train leave? / So it leaves at 10 o'clock.
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“Yes, yes, my boy, so we will—so we will,” replied the old man; “but how shall we be happy?
“’Tis nothing, nothing; it will soon pass away”—and as he said so the old man’s strength failed him, and he fell backwards.
Morrel; and so, you see, lest he might do you an injury——”
“So that you have lived for three months on sixty francs,” muttered Edmond.
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