Tho

/ðəʊ/ · article

Meaning

(obsolete, West Country) The (plural form); those..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, West Country) The (plural form); those.
2. (obsolete) Those; they.
3. (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
4. (dialectal) When.
5. (chiefly US and Philippines, dated or informal, also Internet slang) Alternative spelling of though.

Example Sentences

1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.

1642, Henry More, Song Soulː Tho I gan closely on his person look.

Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.

Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.

The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.

I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, […]

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