syne
/saɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Subsequently; then.
adv
Late.
prep
Example Sentences
- "At last he comes, and on his knee The wee tots a'thegether cling, An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee, Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing."
- "Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne."
- "Yet in two-three years they'd chaved and saved enough for gear and furnishings, and were married at last, and syne Will was born, and syne Chris herself was born, and the Guthries rented a farm in Echt […]."
- "[Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne."
- ""I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne […]"
- "I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: syne