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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Since

/(sĭns)/ · IPA /sɪn(t)s/
01 adv. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.
  1. 1.
    From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.
    “We since become the slaves to one man's lust.” — B. Jonson.
  2. 2.
    In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
    “How many ages since has Virgil writ?” — Roscommon.
    “About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house.” — Sir P. Sidney.
  3. 3.
    When or that.[Obs.]
    “Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?” — Shak.
02 prep. From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.
  1. 1.
    From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.
    “The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming.” — Gen. xxx. 30.
    “I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients.” — Dryden.
03 conj. Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.
  1. 1.
    Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.
    “Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon.” — Shak.
    “Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed.” — Granville.
Syn. Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See Because.