since
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
since/sɪns/
▶preposition in the intervening period between (the time mentioned) and the time under consideration. ▶conjunction
- 1 during or in the time after.
- 2 for the reason that; because.
- 1 from the time mentioned until the present or the time under consideration.
- 2 ago.
– origin ME: contr. of obs. sithence, or from dial. sin (both from dial. sithen ‘thereupon, afterwards, ever since’).
'since' also found in these Oxford entries:
ago
- badger-baiting
- because
- black
- bragging rights
- Coventry
- date
- dwarf
- em
- en
- European Community
- ever
- farce
- for
- forasmuch as
- HeLa cells
- hoi polloi
- hopefully
- inasmuch
- Meissen
- metropolitan county
- modern English
- modern Latin
- N
- Negro
- octopus
- Peter's pence
- Phanerozoic
- pop
- postglacial
- raised beach
- real
- Roman Catholic Church
- seeing
- shire county
- should
- syne
- telegram
- thankfully
- unique
- whence
- white
- Worcester
