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say it: then
then is an adverb, noun and adjective meaning "subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
at that time
“I was young then”
“prices were lower back then”
“science as it was then taught”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for then come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.