Standard Lemma guide
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adv
Misspelling of though.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
conj
Misspelling of though.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
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noun
A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 μm).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: mil, mill
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: grand, G, large, K
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Nominative singular of ye (“you”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, form-of, literary, nominative, singular
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: none provided
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pron
Honorific alternative letter-case form of thou, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, honorific
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: thee
Antonyms: you
verb
To use the word thou.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: thee
Antonyms: you
noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, yard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large integer
Narrower terms: millenary
History
See though.
Clipping of thou(sandth).
Clipping of thou(sand).
From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh2 (“you, thou”). cognates and usage evolution The English word is cognate with Saterland Frisian du (“thou”), West Frisian do (“thou”), dialectal Dutch du, dou, douw (“thou”), Limburgish doe (“thou”), Low German du (“thou”), dialectal German dau (“thou”), German du (“thou”), Danish du (“thou”), Swedish du (“thou”), Norwegian Nynorsk du (“thou”), Faroese tú (“thou”), Icelandic þú (“thou”), Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þu, “thou”), Latin tu, Ancient Greek σύ (sú) (Doric Ancient Greek τύ (tú), Greek εσύ (esý)), Irish tú, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic тꙑ (ty), Welsh ti, Armenian դու (du), Albanian ti, Persian تو (to), Gujarati તું (tũ), Hindi तू (tū). The informality of thou and its replacement by ye in formal situations date only to the 14th century and come from French influence, since French (as many European languages, but not Old English) uses the second-person plural (vous) instead of the second-person singular (tu) as a mark of politeness or respect.
From Late Middle English thouen, theu, thew, thou, thowe, thowen, thui, thuy (“to address (a person) with thou, particularly in a contemptuous or polite manner”), from the pronoun thou: see etymology 1 above.
Across languages
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