Definition/Meaning of thou

• English - Pronoun: thou (plural ye, objective case thee, reflexive thyself, possessive determiner thy or thine, possessive pronoun thine) (archaic, dialectal, literary, nominative, singular) Nominative singular of ye (“you”). 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:14: [...] Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall giue thee…
• English - Verb: thou (third-person singular simple present thous, present participle thouing, simple past and past participle thoued) (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity . Don’t thou them as thou s thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children 1811, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, “Of Matters Relating and…
• English - Noun: thou (plural thous) A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm). We just wanted to take off a few thou , which we easily did with fine sandpaper. 1946 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 344: But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in ' thous. ,' though apparently some of…
• English - Adverb: thou (not comparable) (misspelling, not comparable) Misspelling of though .
• English - Conjunction: thou (misspelling) Misspelling of though .