Definitions of thou [ðaʊ]

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Definition of 'thou'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (pron.) thou
Archaic (except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose or as used by the Friends). the second person singular personal pronoun in the nominative case (used to denote the person or thing addressed):
Thou shalt not kill.

2. (v.t.) thou
to address as
thou.

3. (v.i.) thou
to use thou in discourse.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE thū, c. OFris, OS, ON thū, OHG t(h)u, Go thu, OIr tú, L tū, Doric Gk tý)

Definition of 'thou'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Definition of 'thou'

Webster Dictionary

1. thou
the second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style

2. (verb) thou
to address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt

3. (verb) thou
to use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends

Translation of 'thou'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an old word for `you' used only when addressing one person, especially God (usuallyThou), as the subject of a verb Thou, O God .; Thou shalt not kill!
Afrikaans: u	Arabic: أنْتَ، أنْتِ	Bulgarian: ост. ти
Brazilian: vós	Czech: ty	German: du
Danish: du	Greek: εσύ (αρχ.)	Spanish: vos
Estonian: sina	Farsi: تو	Finnish: sinä
French: tu, toi	Hebrew: אַת, אַתָה	Hindi: तू
Croatian: ti	Hungarian: te	Indonesian: Kau
Icelandic: þú	Italian: tu	Japanese: なんじ
Korean: (단수) 당신	Lithuanian: tu	Latvian: (novec., poēt.) tu
Malay: kamu	Dutch: gij	Norwegian: du
Polish: ty	Persian: تو	Pashto: ته (دمفرد مخاطب ضمير
Portuguese: vós	Romanian: Tu, tu	Russian: ты
Slovak: ty	Slovenian: Ti	Serbian: ti
Swedish: du, din [skurk]!	Thai: ท่าน, เธอ (ใช้ในภาษาวรรณค	Turkish: sen
Taiwanese: (古)汝，爾	Ukrainian: ти	Urdu: تو، تم
Vietnamese: mày, mi, ngươi	Chinese: （古）汝，尔
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