thou
IPA: ðˈaʊ
noun
- A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
- (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).
verb
- (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
- (intransitive) To use the word thou.
adverb
- Misspelling of though. [(conjunctive) Despite that; however.]
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Examples of "thou" in Sentences
- Tell me now, thou of the gray head, of what art _thou_ thinking? '
- Wilt thou be quiet, said the wolf, thou wilt waken up the people!
- "How shouldst thou so utterly desert me, Zorzi -- _thou_, and my people whom I love!"
- Happy ferry-man, thought Grainier, thou aspirest not to fame; thou composest no epithalamiums.
- And thou, he said, thou gavest me thine oath that thou wouldst bring me in safety to Ehrenfels.
- Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, thou wretched swineherd, this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast?
- Before thou receivest my daughter, and half of my kingdom, said he to him, thou must perform one more heroic deed.
- But thou art a thing preferred to honour: thou art thyself a fragment torn from God: thou hast a portion of Him within thyself.
- But wilt thou make a fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress, whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?
- With a wild cry she broke from him, and as bitter tears ran down her cheek, she said, "O Kephalos, Kephalos, why hast thou done thus? all my love was thine, and _thou_ hast drawn me into evil deeds."
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