English Explanatory Dictionary

since

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. From a specified time in the past.
prep
  1. From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
  2. Continuously during that period of time.
  3. At certain points during that period of time.
conj
  1. From the time that.
  2. Because.
  3. When or that.

Pronunciation

/sɪn(t)s/ en-us-since.ogg

Word forms

since sence

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

since sithence sithen sith

Antonyms

until while

Derived words

ever since best thing since sliced bread best thing since sliced pan greatest thing since sliced bread long since since Adam was an oakum boy since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard since God was a boy since Hector was a pup since long since Skippy was a pup since when

Translations

Arabic: مُنْذُ Arabic: من Armenian: սկսած Armenian: -ից Asturian: dende Asturian: desde Belarusian: з Bengali: অবধি Bengali: থেকে Bengali: হতে Bengali: হইতে Bulgarian: от Burmese: ကတည်းက Catalan: de ... ençà Chinese Mandarin: 自從 /自从 Chinese Mandarin: 自 Chinese Mandarin: 從 /从 Czech: od Czech: od té doby Danish: siden Dutch: sinds Dutch: sedert Esperanto: ekde Esperanto: depost Estonian: alates Estonian: saadik Estonian: saati Estonian: peale Ewe: tso Finnish: lähtien French: depuis West-Frisian: sûnt Galician: desde Galician: dende Georgian: -დან German: seit Greek: από Greek: εδώ και Ancient Greek: ἐκ Haitian Creole: depi Hawaiian: mahope mai Hebrew: מאז Hindi: ... से Hungarian: óta Icelandic: síðan Ido: depos Indonesian: sejak Indonesian: dari Indonesian: mulai Indonesian: sejak dari Indonesian: mulai dari Interlingua: de Interlingua: desde Interlingua: a partir de Irish: ó Italian: da Italian: a partire da Japanese: …以来 Japanese: …から Japanese: …より Khmer: ចាប់តាំងពី Khmer: តាំងពី Korean: 부터 Korean: 후 Northern Kurdish: ji ... ve Lao: ຕັ້ງແຕ່ Latin: abhinc Latin: ab Latin: a
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