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  1. pronoun Used to refer to the person or thing present, nearby, or just mentioned: This is my cat. These are my tools.
  2. pronoun Used to refer to what is about to be said: Now don't laugh when you hear this.
  3. pronoun Used to refer to the present event, action, or time: said he'd be back before this.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see to- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English this, thys, older thes, plural thas, thæs, thes, theos, theise, also after Scandinavian thir (Scots thir), from Anglo-Saxon thes, masculine, theós, feminine, this, n., plural thās, = Old Saxon *thesa, masculine, thius, feminine, thit, n., = OFries. this, thes, thius, thit = Middle Dutch dese, dise, dit, Dutch deez, deze, dit = Middle Low German desse = Old High German diser, desēr, Middle High German diser, German dieser (diese, feminine, dieses, dies, neuter) = Icelandic thessi, thessi, thetta = Swedish denne, denna, detta = Danish denne, dette = Gothic (Moesogothic) *this, this; from tha, the pronominal base of the, that, etc., + -s, earlier -se, -si, prob. orig. identical with Anglo-Saxon se, etc., the (but by some identified with the imperative (Anglo-Saxon seó, Old High German sē, Gothic (Moesogothic) sai) of the verb see). The plural of this appears in two forms, these (from Middle English thes, thæs) and those (from Middle English thās, from Anglo-Saxon thās), the latter being now associated with that, of which the historical plural is tho, now obsolete Hence thus.
  2. A variant of thus, or an elliptical use of for this. Cf. that, adv.
 

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