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so

 
 
/səʊ/ conjunction

Definition

REASON used to say that something is the reason why something else happens: I was tired so I went to bed. Greg had some money so he bought a bike.
so (that) in order to make something happen or be possible: He put his glasses on so that he could see the television better.
CONNECT used at the beginning of a sentence to connect it with something that was said or happened previously: So we're not going away this weekend after all?
(Definition of so conjunction from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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