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tho¹

  • /ðəʊ/ UK
  • /ðoʊ/ US
  • /ðə/ West Country

Sounds like the · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *þai, from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, plural). Doublet of they.

article

  1. West Country, obsolete The (plural form); those.

pronoun

  1. obsolete Those; they.

tho²

  • /ðəʊ/ UK
  • /ðoʊ/ US
  • /ðə/ West Country

Sounds like the · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).

adverb

  1. dialectal, not comparable Then; thereupon. 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.

conjunction

  1. dialectal When.

tho³

  • /ðəʊ/ UK
  • /ðoʊ/ US
  • /ðə/ West Country

Sounds like the · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Simplified reform spelling. Popular in American English in the earlier 20th century. Like thru, it failed to establish itself fully, but remains in informal contexts or where brevity is needed. Compare tho'.

adverb

  1. nonstandard, not comparable Nonstandard spelling of though The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.

THO⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of tritiated water (“³H-¹H-O, tritium-protium water”)

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: nevertheless, though, however, life, ting, ga, sau, shou, albeit, although, still, nonetheless, anyway, even, regardless, notwithstanding

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"tho." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tho. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tho. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tho

Chicago

"tho." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tho.

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@misc{tho_2026,
  title = {tho},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tho},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}