since
Meaning
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From a specified time in the past.
Synonyms
seeing that
considering that
by reason of
place to leave off
closing sentence
all there is
away from
thence forward
if-then
after that
a long time
forasmuchas
from behind
from then on
from there
in view of the fact that
since then
till now
you see
long time ago
beginning with
due to the fact that
from which
starting from
reason why
from when
from this moment
inasmuc as
oweing to
having begun
from the time
it being so
functions as ad
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɪns/
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”).
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