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

  • preposition, adverb & adjective Through.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of through.

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

  • Ref. spelling. Through.

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

  • preposition informal, Canada, US Alternative spelling of through.

Etymologies

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American English; first addressed in 1839 as a simplified spelling of through.

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