since

CEFRA1

/sɪn(t)s/

noun · adverb · preposition

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01
noun
From a time in the past until now; because.
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noun
Extra detail
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., Continuously during that period of time.

Examples

Cath hasn't phoned since she went to Berlin.
I don't know how to demonstrate it, since it's too obvious!

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5

Deep Dive

adverb

Extra meaning

From a specified time in the past.

preposition

Extra meanings

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.
Continuously during that period of time.

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In context

It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.
I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.
I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.

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Citations

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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.
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
Since the 1980s, computers have had increasing roles in all aspects of human life—including an involvement in criminal acts.
2013 September-October, Simson Garfinkel, “Digital Forensics”, in American Scientist
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite.
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249

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Origin

noun

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”).