What does then mean?
Then means (temporal location) At that time..
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/ðɛn/ · adverb
(temporal location) At that time..
He was happy then.
And the Canaanite was then in the land.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
The country was shaken by the then-recent assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, which happened against the background of profound racial tensions, stark economic inequality and growing opposition to the Vietnam War.
He fixed it, then left.
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
And then came an invitation to tonight's ball.
First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Use then when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Then means (temporal location) At that time..
Common synonyms include at the time, back in the day, and then, and so.
Possible antonyms include before, previously, prior to.
He was happy then.
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