thence
/ðɛns/
thence adverb: from there, from that place or from that time.
Adverb
thence (not comparable)
- From there, from that place or from that time.
- I came thence.
- Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).
- Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
- I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.
- From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
thence meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
thence in Hindi
- from there
- वहाँ से vahā̃ se, यहाँ से yahā̃ se
thence in Urdu
- thence
- اس وجہ سے is vajā se
thence in Malayalam
- അവിടെനിന്ന്, അതുമുതൽ, അക്കാരണത്താൽ
thence in Arabic
- from there
- مِن هُنَاكَ min hunāka, ثَمَّ ṯamma
Examples of thence in a sentence
- And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius...
- My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam.1965, James Cameron, “On the Way”, in Here is Your Enemy, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:
- From this we can find the characteristic roots b#95;1 and b#95;2 and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 605:
Antonyms of thence
Origin of thence
From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.
Words formed from thence
- thenceafter
- thence after
- thenceforth
- thenceforward
- thenceforwards
- thencefrom
Words that rhyme with thence
Questions about thence
- What does thence mean?
- Thence means from there, from that place or from that time.
- What is thence in Hindi?
- Thence in Hindi is वहाँ से (vahā̃ se), यहाँ से (yahā̃ se). See Thence meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use thence in a sentence?
- And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)
- What part of speech is thence?
- Thence is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce thence?
- Thence is pronounced /ðɛns/.
Words near thence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thence (page history and authors); اس وجہ سے (Urdu) (page history and authors); thence (Malayalam 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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