Definition of Than:

• A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
• A particle used before the second member of a comparison.
• A word placed after the comparative of an adjective or adverb between the things compared.
• Expressing comparison with greater or less.
• A joining particle used after the comparative degree, and followed by the object compared; also used after such words as other, otherwise.
• Then. See Then.

Usage examples for Than

1. More than I can say.  The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

2. You cannot be better than you have always been.  A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

3. Sometimes I have not felt that you liked me any better than when first we knew each other.  The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook

4. I found that other one, and went into that, as it was better than where we first were, he said to Mr. Dent.  The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea by Laura Lee Hope