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  1. than: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. than: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. than: Collins English Dictionary
  4. than: Vocabulary.com
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  8. than: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. than: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. than: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. than: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. than: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Than (disambiguation), Than: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Than: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. than: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Than: Rhymezone
  18. than: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. than: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. than: Free Dictionary
  21. than: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. than: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. than: Merriam-Webster.com
  24. than: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. than: Sound Alike Words

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  2. THAN: Acronym Finder

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  1. than: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Thangadh, a town in the Indian state of Gujarat.
noun:  A village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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