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Webster 1913 Edition


Those

Those

,
p
ron.
[OE.
þos
,
þas
, AS.
ðās
, nom. and acc. pl. of
ðēs
this. See
This
, and cf.
These
.]
The plural of that. See
That
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Those

THOSE

, pron. s as z. plu. of that; as those men; those temples. When those and these are used in reference to two things or collections of things, those refers to the first mentioned,as these does to the last mentioned. [See These, and the example there given.]

Definition 2024


those

those

English

Determiner

those

  1. plural of that
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
      Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
    • 2013 June 8, The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
      From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.
    Those bolts go with these parts.

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Translations

Pronoun

those

  1. plural of that

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: shall · most · where · #103: those · own · old · came

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