then

Adjective

• at a specific prior time
  • the then president
    

Adverb

• at that time
  • I was young then
    
  • prices were lower back then
    
  • science as it was then taught
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• that time; that moment
  • we will arrive before then
    
  • we were friends from then on
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  then(a) , so , and so , and then