Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • conjunction & adverb Though.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The (in plural); those.
  • Those; they.
  • Then; thereupon.
  • When.
  • A common abbreviated spelling of though.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • conjunction Reformed spelling. Though.
  • obsolete The.
  • preposition obsolete Those.
  • adverb obsolete Then.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • determiner, article obsolete The (plural form); those.
  • pronoun obsolete Those; they.
  • adverb now dialectal Then; thereupon.
  • conjunction dialectal When.
  • adverb informal Alternative spelling of though.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a branch of the Tai languages

Etymologies

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From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā ("the, those", plural), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”).

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From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā ("then, when"), from Proto-Germanic *sa (“þa-”), *that, from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”).

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American English; Alteration of though.

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