Definition of then

"then" in the noun sense

1. then

that time that moment

"we will arrive before then"

"we were friends from then on"

"then" in the adjective sense

1. then

at a specific prior time

"the then president"

"then" in the adverb sense

1. then, so, and so

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors

"then he left"

"go left first, then right"

"first came lightning, then thunder"

"we watched the late movie and then went to bed"

"and so home and to bed"

2. then

in that case or as a consequence

"if he didn't take it, then who did?"

"keep it then if you want to"

"the case, then, is closed"

"you've made up your mind then?"

"then you'll be rich"

3. then

at that time

"I was young then"

"prices were lower back then"

"science as it was then taught"

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Quotations for then

Work first, and then rest. [ Ruskin ]

First deserve and then desire. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Come then, expressive Silence. [ Thomson ]

Is it then so sad a thing to die? [ Virgil ]

When war begins, then hell openeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Is it then so very dreadful to die? [ Virgil ]

Evil then results from imperfection. [ Bailey ]

Then never less alone than when alone. [ Samuel Rogers ]

All bow to virtue - and then walk away. [ De Finod ]

Look, then, into thine heart and write! [ Longfellow ]

Then stars arise, and the night is holy. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Look above you, and then look about you. [ Proverb ]

You break my head then give me a plaister. [ Proverb ]

Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide. [ Pope ]

A fool may now and then be right by chance. [ Cowper ]

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. [ Pope ]

The crow bewails the sheep and then eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Art thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness. [ Margaret in "Faust." ]

Virtue's paths are first rugged then pleasant. [ Proverb ]

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Put off your armour and then shew your courage. [ Proverb ]

Harvest will come, and then every farmers rich. [ Proverb ]

Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them. [ Proverb ]

When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances. [ Proverb ]

Whist, then, delightful whist, my theme shall be. [ A. Thompson ]

Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. [ Cowper ]

If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [ Ausonius ]

Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. [ J. G. Holland ]

Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. [ Spanish Proverb ]

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war! [ Nathaniel Lee ]

Wine is a turncoat: first a friend, and then an enemy. [ Fielding ]

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. [ Horace ]

Lidford Jaw; first hang and draw, then hear the cause. [ Proverb ]

When the devil is a vicar, then you shalt be his clerk. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow comes, and we are where? Then let us live today. [ Schiller ]

My cow gives a good mess of milk, and then kicks it down. [ Proverb ]

Go steal a horse, and then you'll die without being sick. [ Proverb ]

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. [ Ward Beecher ]

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running. [ Proverb ]

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. [ Anonymous ]

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise then? [ Ben Jonson ]

Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want everything. [ Proverb ]

And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open. [ Shakespeare ]

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. [ Proverb ]

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. [ Tacitus ]

Character is what Nature has engraven on us; can we then efface it? [ Voltaire ]

Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing; Now hawthorns blossom. [ Pope ]

Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

A strange ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to the door. [ Proverb ]

When you have made me shuffle the cards then truly you will not play. [ Proverb ]

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. [ William Shakespeare ]

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. [ Roosevelt ]

Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]

The years as they pass bereave us first of one thing and then another. [ Horace ]

The most penitent anchorite has now and then a small flight of vanity. [ Proverb ]

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. [ Pascal ]

A horse stumbles that hath four legs. (What wonder then, if two stumble.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

Ah! If the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. [ Horace Greeley ]

Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. [ Dr. Watts ]

We think that not to live happily is not to live; then, how little we live!

Pleasures are sins: we regret to offend God; but, then, pleasures please us. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. [ Bunyan ]

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. [ W. R. Alger ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow will be as distant then as it is today. [ Tome Burguillos ]

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. [ Richter ]

then in Scrabble®

The word then is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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then in Words With Friends™

The word then is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters then:

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Words within the letters of then

2 letter words in then (3 words)

3 letter words in then (5 words)

4 letter words in then (1 word)

then + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence then

Words that start with then (6 words)

Words with then in them (179 words)

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Word Growth involving then

Shorter words in then

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Longer words containing then

acenaphthenyl

angioasthenia

asthenosphere asthenospheres

asthenospheric asthenospherical asthenospherically

authentic authentical authentically unauthentically

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ethene chloroethene tetrachloroethene tetrachloroethenes

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polythene

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