Than

Conjunction

 * 1)   Because; for.
 * 2) *1854, Reformation series:
 * If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
 * 1) *1668, William Lawson, A way to get wealth:
 * You shall also take the fine earth or mould which is found in the hollow of old Willow trees, rising from the root almost to the middle of the Tree, at least so far as the tree is hollow, for than this, there is no earth or mould finer or richer.
 * 1) *1665, Stillingfleet, Laud, Carwell, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion:
 * Answer me if you can, any other way, than because the Scriptures, which are infallible, Say so.
 * I'm taller than she is.
 * She found his advice more witty than helpful.
 * We have less work today than we had yesterday.
 * It's bigger than I thought it was.
 * It's bigger than I thought it was.

Preposition

 * 1) introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
 * Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.

Thesaurus
alias, as compared with, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, by comparison with, compared with, contrarily, else, elsewise, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, in comparison with, in other respects, in other ways, leaving out, let alone, omitting, or else, other than, otherwise, outside of, over against, precluding, save, save and except, saving, taken with, unless, without

Etymology
From, from þanne:, a variant of þonne:, from. Cognate with dan:,  denn:,  dann:. More at.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/D{n/}}

Preposition

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: baino
 * Belarusian: чым
 * Breton:
 * Catalan: que
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:, ממה ש־, מאשר
 * Hindi: की अपेक्षा, से
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: kam
 * Indonesian: daripada


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Low German: denn
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: از
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, do que
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కంటె
 * Thai: กว่า
 * Ukrainian: ніж
 * Urdu: سے
 * Vietnamese: hơn
 * Volapük: ka
 * Welsh:

Anagrams

 * ha'nt

Adverb

 * 1) then
 * 2) * 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
 * And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.
 * And when he had drunk all the wine He would not speak a word other than Latin

Noun
than
 * 1) coal

Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese, from Chinese 炭

Derived terms

 * than đá (coal)

Synonyms

 * than đá

Preposition
than


 * 1) Aspirate mutation of tan