and so

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsthenso

Questions about and so

What does and so mean?

and so means "subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)".

What is another word for and so?

Close synonyms include then, so. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is and so a common word?

and so is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.