since

Meanings

1. 1
   conj

   From a point in the past until now.

   I have loved you since I first met you.

2. 2
   conj

   Because.

   Since you didn't call, we left without you.

3. 3
   prep

   From a particular past time up to now.

   We have lived here since 2010.

4. 4
   adv

   From a time in the past until now.

   I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.

From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

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