# since

Pronunciation: say "SINS" /sɪn(t)s/

## Preposition

1. From a particular time or event in the past until now or until a later time in the past, covering either the whole period or things happening at some point within it.
   - Simple: From a past time or event until now or a later past time, or at some point during that period.
   - _She has lived here since 2010._
   - _The shop has been closed since the fire._

## Conjunction

2. Because, giving a reason that is taken as already known or obvious.
   - Simple: Because, used when the listener already knows the reason.
   - _Since the shop was shut, we went home._
   - _We'll take the car, since it's raining._
3. During the period after the time when something happened, until now or until another time in the past, covering the whole period or events within it.
   - Simple: From the time when something happened, up to now.
   - _We have not spoken since we argued._
   - _He has grown a beard since I last saw him._

## Adverb

4. From a specified time in the past until now ('I met him last year, but haven't seen him since'), often 'ever since'.
   - Simple: From that time until now, as in 'I haven't seen him since'.
   - _He fell off his bike and has been careful ever since._
   - _They quarreled in May and have not spoken since._

## Conjunction

5. When, or that, used after verbs of remembering. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An old use meaning 'when', as in 'remember since we lay'.

## Origin

From Middle English syns, a contraction of earlier sithens, from sithen ("after, since"), from Old English sīþþan. This came from the phrase sīþ þǣm ("after that time"). It is related to Dutch sinds, German seit, and Danish siden.

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