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Cecil Beaton

Meaning of "than" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD THAN

Old English thanne; related to Old Saxon, Old High German thanna.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF THAN

than  [ðæn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Than can act as a preposition and a conjunction.
The preposition is an invariable grammatical category, that has no meaning itself and which serves to link or relate terms.

The conjunction is an invariable grammatical category used to join together words and sentences.

WHAT DOES THAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Than

Than is a grammatical particle analyzed as both a conjunction and a preposition in the English language. It introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it measures the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.

Definition of than in the English dictionary

The definition of than in the dictionary is used to introduce the second element of a comparison, the first element of which expresses difference. Other definition of than is used after adverbs such as rather or sooner to introduce a rejected alternative in an expression of preference.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THAN

than most
thanage
thanatism
thanatist
thanatognomonic
thanatography
thanatoid
thanatological
thanatologist
thanatology
thanatophobia
thanatopsis
Thanatos
thanatosis
Thanatotic
thane
thanedom
thanehood
thaneship

WORDS THAT END LIKE THAN

adhan
afghan
Callaghan
darshan
Elizabethan
Foshan
Jonathan
khan
leviathan
lohan
Monaghan
Morbihan
Nathan
nothing less than
orphan
other than
Rajasthan
Shan
Vaughan
Wuhan

Synonyms and antonyms of than in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «than» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THAN

Find out the translation of than to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of than from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «than» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

que
570 millions of speakers

English

than
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مِنْ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

do que
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেয়ে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

que
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Daripada
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

als
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

・・・よりも
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

...보다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hơn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेक्षा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

göre
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

che
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niż
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ніж
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decât
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

από
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

as
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

än
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of than

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THAN»

The term «than» is very widely used and occupies the 359 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «than» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «than» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about than

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10 QUOTES WITH «THAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word than.
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Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Mikhail Bakunin
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
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Toni Cade Bambara
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
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Linwood Barclay
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
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Roseanne Barr
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.
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Cecil Beaton
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
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Bob Beauprez
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
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Jose Bergamin
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
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Leo Burnett
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THAN»

Discover the use of than in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to than and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods that Changed the Way We Eat
Featuring the stories behind the inventions and never-before published ads, this book will strike a chord with generations of readers who grew up loving Velveeta and Twinkies.
Carolyn Wyman, 2004
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world.
Miranda July, 2007
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More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics ...
This is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value.
Philip Mirowski, 1991
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More Than This
From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.
Patrick Ness, 2013
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More Than A Name: An Introduction to Branding
This book is a prerequisite for visual arts students, copywriters, brand strategists and marketers. Book jacket.
Melissa Davis, 2006
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical ...
Slavoj Žižek’s masterwork on the Hegelian legacy.
Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj Žižek, 2012
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More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's ...
From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better than paying their ...
Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, 2011
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More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize.
James Naremore, 2007
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Men Are Better Than Women
Through a process of exhaustive man research he calls "keeping his eyes open," Dick Masterson has compiled a Magnum-size list of the ways men are better than women.
Dick Masterson, 2008
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel
Presents a history and an outlook on the genre of fiction known as, "Graphic novels", which began in the early 1950s and, according to the author, their popularity is growing rapidly.
Stephen Weiner, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term than is used in the context of the following news items.
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Well | Girls Are Born With Weaker Backbones Than Boys
Girls tend to be born with smaller and weaker backbones than boys, a new study has found, a finding that may have implications years down the road. «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
India Will Be Most Populous Country Sooner Than Thought, UN Says
Over all, the report said, the world's current population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, slightly more than the 9.6 billion forecast two years ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Greece's Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity
It is easy to see Greece as a clash between “austerity” and “progressive economics,” with the Germans (and Finns and Dutch, alongside various international ... «blogs.hbr.org, Jul 15»
4
Amazon is now bigger than Walmart
During the thinly traded after-hours session, Amazon's stock price leapt by over 14% to more than $550 a share after the company reported strong quarterly ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
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More Than Their Mothers, Young Women Plan Career Pauses
“Out of business school, not being married and not having kids, anything less than 80 hours a week to me was balanced. Then in consulting, it was if I traveled or ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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More children living in poverty now than during recession
A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
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A Bias More Than Skin Deep
I will never forget the October 2013 feature on National Geographic's website: There was a pair of portraits of olive-skinned, ruby-lipped boys, one with a mane of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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The South's Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag
First off, I love the Southland. I was born and raised in Florence, Ala., a small town on the northern banks of the Tennessee River in a region known locally as the ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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First Listen: Jason Isbell, 'Something More Than Free'
Jason Isbell's relationship with the South — like that of his former band, Drive-By Truckers — is complicated. An Alabama native, Isbell has continued to ... «NPR, Jul 15»
10
Fish Poisoning More Common Than Believed
Dr. Radke's study combined an analysis of poisoning reports and an email survey of more than 5,000 sport fishermen. Ciguatera poisoning is supposed to be ... «New York Times, Jun 15»

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