Thenname

• 1

  A surname.

thenadv/ðɛn/

• 1

  temporal-locationtimeAt that time.

  • He was happy then.
  • And the Canaanite was then in the land.
• 2

  temporal-locationtimeSoon afterward.

  • He fixed it, then left.
  • Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
• 3

  Next in order of place.

  • There are three green ones, then a blue one.
  • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
• 4

  In addition; also; besides.

  • Another legend says that now and again in the world's history a monarch appears who conquers and rules every nation under the sun. […] Then many of the Siamese believe that the animal is inhabited by the soul of some great man of the past […]
• 5

  In that case.

  • If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
  • Is it 12 o’clock already? Then it’s time for me to leave.
• 6

  At the same time; on the other hand.

  • That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
  • The forms inheritress and inheritrix are used only in literature, and then but rarely.
• 7

  dialectalUsed to contradict an assertion.

  • ‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’ ‘They're not then.’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They're –’ ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.

thenadj/ðɛn/

• 1

  Being so at that time.

  • He had met his then girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.
  • It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.

thennoun/ðɛn/

• 1

  That time.

  • It will be finished before then.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• than