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then: [adjective] existing or acting at or belonging to the time mentioned.
Then definition: at that time. See examples of THEN used in a sentence.
THEN meaning: 1. (at) that time (in the past or in the future): 2. next or after that: 3. in addition: . Learn more.
Call again next week. They should have reached a decision by then. Just then (= at that moment) there was a knock at the door. She left in 1984 and from then on he lived alone. I took one look at the car and offered to buy it there and then/then and there (= immediately). Her voice sounded raspy, and it was then that she realized how thirsty ...
Then is a word that puts things in order by time, or refers to a moment in time: you get up; then you have breakfast. You're married now; back then, you were single.
THEN definition: 1. at that time: 2. next, or after something has happened: 3. so or because of that: . Learn more.