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THOU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Synonyms:
1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("thou" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thou"):
millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))
Context examples:
“Sometimes I have risen superior to my difficulties. Sometimes my difficulties have—in short, have floored me. There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber, in the words of Cato, “Plato, thou reasonest well. It's all up now. I can show fight no more.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Thou art she! said the old king; and as thou has judged thyself, so shall it be done to thee.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Afeard, thou lurden!” growled big John.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Art thou willing to do no less than what Old Kinoos hath done?" He nodded his head, and waited.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Say 'thou', also, and I shall say your language is almost as beautiful as mine.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Only a small matter of a couple of thous to a thou, he giving the odds.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Was that,” she asked, “like the bird which thou hast seen?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As thou hast said, they seek for us even now, these Russians.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
