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then and there

then and there adverb: right at that moment in time and on the spot; immediately.

Adverb

then and there (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Right at that moment in time and on the spot; immediately.
    • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    • 'Well, I soon saw to that, I told him to bolt it then and there[.]'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 99
    Synonyms:
    there and then

then and there meaning in Tamil and Bengali

then and there in Tamil

அங்கங்கே அவ்வப்போ ஏகதேசம்

then and there in Bengali

অবিলম্বে

Synonyms of then and there

Questions about then and there

What does then and there mean?
Then and there means right at that moment in time and on the spot; immediately.
What is then and there in Tamil?
Then and there in Tamil is அங்கங்கே அவ்வப்போ ஏகதேசம். See Then and there meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is then and there?
Then and there is an adverb.

Words near then and there in the dictionary

  1. themun
  2. then
  3. then again
  4. then and in that event
  5. then and now
  6. then and there
  7. then-
  8. then-and-now
  9. thenable
  10. thenables
  11. thenabout

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Adapted from Wiktionary: then and there (page history and authors); then and there (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); then and there (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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