Thou

Quick meaning: Thou is a pronoun meaning (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.

Meaning

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To use the word thou.
2. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
3. Misspelling of though.
4. (archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) Nominative singular of ye (“you”).
5. (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

Example Sentences

[...] Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall giue thee light.

Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children

Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!

Art thou in earnest about thy soul? and canst thou tell the Searcher of Hearts, Thou, O God, art the thing that I long for? Lord, Thou knowest all things, Thou knowest that I would love thee?

Word Forms

• thow
• thoo
• thous
• thouing
• thoued

Synonyms for thou

Depending on context, synonyms include thee, mil, mill, grand, G, large.

Antonyms for thou

Common opposites include you.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grand, chiliad, m, k, g, yard.

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