then

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   subsequently or soon afterward, often used as sentence connectors

   We finished our lunch and then we left.

2. 2
   adv

   at that time

   I was young then

3. 3
   adv

   in that case or as a consequence

   If they didn't take it, then who did?

4. 4
   adv

   At that time.

   He was happy then.

5. 5
   adv

   Soon afterward.

   He fixed it, then left.

6. 6
   adv

   Next in order of place.

   There are three green ones, then a blue one.

7. 7
   adv

   In addition; also; besides.

   Another legend says that now and again in the world's history a monarch appears who conquers and rules every nation under the sun. […] Then many of the Siamese believe that the animal is inhabited by the soul of some great man of the past […]

8. 8
   adv

   In that case.

   If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.

Etymology

* As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony. * Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). * Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (“threshing-floor”). * As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of 鄧 /邓 (dèng) (see Deng) and 田 (tián) (see Tian).