Definition/Meaning of the

• English - Article: the Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun: ...because it has already been mention ed, is to be completely specified in the same sentence, or very shortly thereafter. 2016, VOA Learning English, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017: I sleep in the bedroom! the street that runs all the way through my hometown Used before a noun designating something considered to be unique , or…
• English - Adverb: the (not comparable) (not comparable) With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives. The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. (not comparable) With a comparative , and often with for it , indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none…
• English - Preposition: the For each; per . valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest 1837, James Edward Alexander, Narrative of a Voyage of Observation Among the Colonies of Western Africa, in the Flag-ship Thalia; and of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, in 1835, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, pages 251–2: Next morning I was up at an early hour, to…
• English - Pronoun: the (Early, Modern) Early Modern form of thee . 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvj:[24], folio cxcv, recto: Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.
• English - Alternative forms: ðe ( obsolete ) , þe ( obsolete ) , ẏ e ( obsolete ) , ẏe ( archaic ) : variant spelling of the . ye ( archaic ) da , teh , le ( informal ) t' ( Northern England )