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# thence

«thence» in Mova's school dictionary: **From that place; from there** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (thence — old, formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) From that place; from there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#m1)

2) From that time; after that. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#m2)

3) For that reason; therefore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

An old word met in classic books, the Bible and old maps or directions: «They went to London, and thence to Dover.» In modern talk people say «from there». In maths proofs very old texts write «thence» for «so».

### examples

- They sailed to France and thence to Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x1)
- Go to the old oak and thence turn left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x2)
- He moved to Leeds and thence to Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x3)
- From the Wild Wood the path led thence to Badger's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x4)
- The river runs down to the town and thence to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x5)
- We stayed a week in Paris, thence by train to Rome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/#x6)

### note

Old-fashioned and formal; do not use it in everyday writing. Related old words: hence (from here), whence (from where). «From thence» is a common old phrase though strictly «thence» already means «from there».

### In the corpora

- [And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.43/)
- [So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.286/)
- [And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.464/)
- [And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.521/)
- [And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.750/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.