because
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /bɪkəz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːs/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɔːz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biːˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɑːz/
note: strong form, obsolete
ipa: /bɪˈkeɪz/
rhymes: -ɒz
rhymes: -ʌz
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: bycause
form: becos
form: 'cause
form: cos
form: cuz
form: coz
form: 'cos
form: 'cuz
form: 'coz
form: b/c
form: bc
form: bcos
form: bcoz
form: bcs
form: bcz
form: bcus
form: ∵
Etymology: From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
Senses: examples: text: I hid myself because I was afraid.
text: I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
text: “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
examples: text: It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
text: I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.
glosses: As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
examples: text: Simon[…]set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
glosses: So that, in order that.
Synonyms: sense: for the reason that
word: therefore
word: since
word: for
word: for that
word: on account of
word: forthy
word: for sake
word: forwhy
word: as
word: inasmuch as
word: sith
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: ∵
word: as long as
word: because
word: being
word: being as
word: being that
word: due to the fact that
word: forasmuch as
word: given that
word: in regard
word: in that
word: now that
word: seeing that
word: sithence
word: when
Hyponyms: word: assuming
word: if
word: if and only if
word: only if
word: provided
word: provided that
word: providing
word: so long as
Derived terms: because is why
because you touch yourself at night
for because
Related terms: word: because of
word: cause
word: therefore