Meaning of since | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Given that, since.
2. From the time that.
3. Because.
4. When or that.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“I have loved you since I first met you.”

“I've known her since I've lived in her street, but I've not seen her out of the house since her husband died.”

“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.”

“Since you didn't call, we left without you.”

“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.”

“Since disbursement is the last step in the process of creating a mortgage instrument, the disbursement date may lag the transaction date by a considerable period.”

“O ſir Iohn, doe you remember ſince wee lay all night in the Winde-mill, in S Georges field.”

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