since
∞
1.0
- subordinating conjunction
- /sɪns/
:
ya que
- Ma told me to go to bed since a friend would sit up with Pop that night.
- especially since
Unity consists of both, since it's both odd and even.
- Unity consists of both, since it's both odd and even.
- This is how we spend their night, but since we're on vacation.
- So hey, all right, since that's being said, why why now?
- Number six is writing down your goals since without a goal you can't score.
- But for his depression, since he's a man, he needs the ESA.
- And you're not now, since you told me, now we're trapped.
- Burglar more than the thread, since you were so confident, right?
- He said he couldn't since I had painted over it.
- All right, now, since it ain't either one of them.
Examples
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Number six is writing down your goals since without a goal you can't score.
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So, Molly, since when have you had this problem?
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The girls were careful of their mother since their father had left.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I'll let you answer the question since you asked it.
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Or why didn't you call me since you were in town?
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They might eat a little extra today since the soil is fresh.
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Tomorrow marks four years to the day since The Megyn Kelly Show launched.
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Little has changed in that district in the twenty years since I visited it with Dickens that night.
Fiction book (1990) -
This was a huge bluff, since no such Brazilian fleet existed.
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I chose this restaurant since it has excellent reviews.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To give the reason for something
5
6.6
To give a reason, like because
2
9.9
An informal word people use instead of because in speech or casual writing
Gives a reason in older or formal English
To introduce a clause that gives a reason for something
Idioms
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6.9
A very useful new thing that people say is great
Surface Forms
Etymology
Since also developed the meaning 'because' from its time sense: if something was true from a time, that fact can be the reason for something else. So 'since it was raining' works like 'because it was raining'.