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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. pro. Used to indicate the one being addressed, especially in a literary, liturgical, or devotional context.
  2. n. Slang A thousand, especially of dollars.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A personal pronoun of the second person, in the singular number, nominative case, the possessive case being thy or thine, and the objective thee: plural, ye or you, your, you. See thine and you.
  2. In ordinary English use the place of thou has been taken by you, which is properly plural, and takes a plural verb. Thou is now little used except archaically, in poetry, provincially, in addressing the Deity, and by the Friends, who usually say not thou but thee, putting a verb in the third person singular with it: as, thee is or is thee?
  3. Formerly it was used in general address, and often bore special significance, according to circumstances, as noting— equality, familiarity, or intimacy
  4. superiority on the part of the speaker
  5. contempt or scorn for the person addressed (see thou, v.).
  6. To address as “thou”: implying (except when referring to the usage of the Friends) familiarity, wrath, scorn, contempt, etc.
  7. To use thou, thee, thy, and thine in discourse, as do the Friends.

Wiktionary

  1. pro. archaic, literary you singular informal, nominative case
  2. v. transitive To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.
  3. v. intransitive To use the word thou.
  4. n. A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.
  5. n. slang A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. pro. The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
  2. v. To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
  3. v. rare To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Etymologies

  1. Shortened from thousand. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English thū, second person nominative sing. personal pron.; see tu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Also called the mil; defined as 1/1,000 of an inch (25.4 µm), frequently used to measure the thickness of very thin materials such as film and plastic sheeting. Mar 1, 2011

  • qroqqa One of only two(?) minimal pairs contrasting /ð/ and /θ/ initially: /ðaʊ/ "you" ~ /θaʊ/ "thousandth of an inch" (or colloquially "thousand"). The other initial pair is 'thus'; final contrasts occur in 'mouth' (n. and v.) and possibly 'withe'/'with'. Jun 10, 2009

  • seanahan Well, I've definitely said, "5 thou" to refer to thousand. Add that to the fact WordNet only contains content words, nouns, verbs, etc., and this makes complete sense. Jun 19, 2008

  • bilby Wherefore art 1000, Romeo? Jun 16, 2008

  • vanishedone Thou, WeirdNet, art thinking of thousand. Jun 16, 2008

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