thou

thou ¹  (ou)

pron.

Used to indicate the one being addressed, especially in a literary, liturgical, or devotional context.

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[Middle English, from Old English th, second person nominative sing. personal pron.; see tu- in Indo-European roots.]

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thou ²  (thou)

n. Slang

A thousand, especially of dollars.

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thou¹

pron (subjective)

1. Archaic dialect refers to the person addressed: used mainly in familiar address or to a younger person or inferior

2. (usually capital) refers to God when addressed in prayer, etc.

[Old English thū; related to Old Saxon thū, Old High German du, Old Norse thū, Latin tū, Doric Greek tu]

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thou²

n pl thous, thou

1. (Mathematics & Measurements / Units) one thousandth of an inch. 1 thou is equal to 0.0254 millimetre

2. (Mathematics) Informal short for thousand

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

thou - the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 1000, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thousand, K, M, G, yard large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten millenary - a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years)

Translations

thou¹ [ðaʊ] PRON (o.f., poet) → tú, vos(archaic)

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thou

pers pron (old, to friend, servant etc) → Er/Sie (obs); (to stranger) → Ihr (obs); (Rel) → du; (Brit: dial) → du

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thou [ðaʊ] pron (old) (poet) → tu

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thou [ðaʊ] pron (old) (poet) → tu

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thou

pron thou [ðau]

an old word for `you' used only when addressing one person, especially God (usuallyThou), as the subject of a verb Thou, O God .; Thou shalt not kill! u أنْتَ، أنْتِ ост. ти ty du du εσύ (αρχ.) vos sina تو sinä tu, toi אַת, אַתָה तू ti te Kau þú tu なんじ (단수) 당신 tu (novec., poēt.) tu kamu gij du ty vós Tu, tu ты ty Ti ti du, din []! ท่าน, เธอ (ใช้ในภาษาวรรณคดีโบราณ) sen (古)汝，爾 ти تو، تم mày, mi, ngươi （古）汝，尔