Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. Used as the direct object of a verb: We saw them at the conference.
- pro. Used as the indirect object of a verb: We gave them a round of applause.
- pro. Used as the object of a preposition: This letter is addressed to them.
- pro. Informal Used as a predicate nominative: It's them. See Usage Notes at be, I1.
- pro. Nonstandard They: "Them's the kind I like.” ( American Dialect Dictionary).
- pro. Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: They ought to get them a new place to live. See Note at me.
- adj. Nonstandard Those: "Them dogs will find the end of them footprints before ten o'clock” ( William Faulkner).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See they.
Wiktionary
- pro. Third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.
- pro. Third person singular pronoun of indeterminate or irrelevant gender
- nonstandard those
GNU Webster's 1913
- pro. The objective case of they. See they.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old Norse theim and Old English thǣm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They may be demanding it, but I doubt most of them have more than abandoned clues as to what that change needs to be, let alone what will be required of ~them~ to make it happen.”
Obama Offers Most Extensive Response Yet To Questions About Rev. Wright
“He is killing all of them, and offer the interpretation that ˜he™ is Alfonso Arblaster of 35 The Crescent, Beetleford, and that ˜them™ are the pigeons in his loft.”
“I've often suspected that this dislike -- it isn't merely skepticism, but active malice -- is basically an unconscious realization dawning on them that here is a platform that doesn't require *them* as gurus and gate-keepers to use.”
“Catholics think they're obviously right, so harsh criticism of them is nothing more than ignorance and bigotry; other people are wrong, so harsh criticism of *them* is simply for their own good.”
“The entire system is set up so that scientific conclusions can be spoon-fed to them by scientists mainly from the government or via quasi-governmental institutions such as the NAS or AGU but, *especially when the policy-makers do not like the implications of what the usual experts are telling them*, from other scientists.”
“I suspect that the "what turns you on" decision needs to be made earlier, in the yearn/zing part of story development, so that when you get down to details the characters tell *you* what turns them on, instead of you telling *them*.”
“I have Christmas presents for everyone who needs them and Chanukah presents for everyone who needs *them*.”
“Not that any of them kids notices me anyway, because every one of them is a prima donna or a prima don, which they just want everybody to look at _them.”
“Rinse your hands (no need to scrub the heck outta them unless you pissed on them if you pissed on them, you weren't following the first rule, fool!), dry them off, and get the heck outta there.”
“I want to have children and tell them everyday that I love them ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘them’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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ptssssssss
uemph
sandcastle, for all to see, but, mostly, them, if they wish, sorta hope, maybe, pop-up, snap, gotcha, cause then i have... and 20 more...
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that one
them, she said she was ..., humph oh ya, well then what wa..., the handjobs, the blowjobs, and him oh ya i h..., no sex drive my ass, fingering, eating out, the both of you, whats wrong with you and 54 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Jamaican patois
"I and I plant the corn..."
i and i, rudeboy, ragamuffin, youth, dem, jamrock, jamden, fat 'matic, likkle, tuff, whe, inna and 132 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Wurzelspeak
Cribbed from Wurzelmania: 'This page contains a dictionary of West Country words and phrases used by Adge Cutler and The Wurzels in their songs, patter, etc., translated into (more or less) English...
bissn't, bist, cassn't, couss, coussn't, dollop, 'ee, 'em, girt, hassn't, i, jollop and 22 more...
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Eye Of The Tiger
more words
evacuating, absolutely, basilisk, genius, vecalized, realized, modestly, delighted, diadem, still, naturally, trotted and 42 more...
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digitaltempest's Words
provocation, dour, verizon, objective, caveat, diaspora, naked, sploosh, queen, goddess, odalisque, dementia and 78 more...
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Thths
þ
oath, both, auth, goth, ruth, moth, sith, heth, bath, cuth, loth, path and 70 more...
Tweets
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