AND SO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does and so mean? 

• AND SO (adverb)
  The adverb AND SO has 1 sense:

1. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

  Familiarity information: AND SO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AND SO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

Synonyms:

and so; so; then

Context example:

and so home and to bed

 Context examples 

He was looking at her so hard that he did not see either of us, and so I had a good view of him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These cells then do the same to their neighbours, and so on.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

The Earth formed in the 'dry' inner solar system, and so it is somewhat surprising that there is water on Earth.

(Moon’s Formation Brought Water to Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And so well did he face it, that at the end of half an hour the wolves drew back discomfited.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Such radio blackouts are only ongoing during the course of a flare, and so they have since subsided.

(Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare, NASA)

In addition, smoothies are usually very high in calories and so aren't recommended as daily beverages.

(Sugary Fruit Juices May Increase Risk of Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide gas released into the atmosphere is also making sea water more acidic, affecting the calcification of coral and invertebrates, and so decreasing the habitat and food of reef-associated fish.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

Until now, scientists had thought that mitochondria were readily interchangeable, serving only to power our bodies, and so an individual’s mitochondria could be replaced with those from a donor with no consequences.

(Interplay between mitochondria and the nucleus may have implications for changing cell’s ‘batteries’, University of Cambridge)

Most seamounts were once active volcanoes, and so are usually found near tectonically active plate boundaries, mid-ocean ridges and subducting zones.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

But your client— Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he comes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)