since
/sɪn(t)s/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
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.
prep
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.
conj
From the time that.
conj
conj
When or that.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "I met him last year, but haven't seen him since."
- "A short/long time since"
- "I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled."
- "I'd been working since six o’clock, and I was getting tired."
- "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia."
- "Since the 1980s, computers have had increasing roles in all aspects of human life—including an involvement in criminal acts."
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”).