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Thus

[ð_ˈʌ_s], [ðˈʌs], [ðˈʌs]

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Definitions of thus

  1. an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
  2. ( used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; " therefore X must be true"; " the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; " we were young and thence optimistic"; " it is late and thus we must go"; " the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
  3. in the way indicated; " hold the brush so"; " set up the pieces thus"; (` thusly' is a nonstandard variant)
  4. The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long- leaved pine, and other conifers.
  5. In this or that manner; on this wise.
  6. To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.
  7. In this or that manner; to this degree; so; therefore.
  8. Frankincense.
  9. In this or that manner: to this degree or extent.
  10. So; in this or that manner; to this or that extent.
  11. In this or that way.
  12. To such extent.
  13. In this case.
  14. In this or that manner; on this wise; to this degree or extent.
  15. The resin of the spruce fir.
  16. The resin of the speruce- fir.
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Usage examples for thus

  1. We may put the matter thus – A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen
  2. Thus he was happy at least in his sleep. – The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick
  3. Thus she felt it to be. – Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  4. Then, consider it thus – Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
  5. I should like to go thus to the end of the world!" – Zibeline, Complete by Phillipe de Massa Last Updated: March 2, 2009
  6. Thus it has been with me. – The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
  7. Thus the game went on. – Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 15, 753. Was that because they did not like to have the price fixed and thus lose the chance of a rising market? – Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
  9. Thus we went on. – On the Banks of the Amazon by W.H.G. Kingston
  10. O happy who thus liveth! – Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Various
  11. Thus the work went on once more. – Peccavi by E. W. Hornung
  12. Thus Cynthia went to her new friends in their own carriage. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
  13. Thus with Clarence Vaughan. – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
  14. Thus a jolly voice behind them, and a hand fell upon the shoulder of each. – The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
  15. And thus Paul says: If I have not love, I am nothing. – The Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon
  16. Not thus did I live, and no such thing, my dear, did I teach you. – Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy
  17. It is thus with me. – Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish
  18. Thus he getteth or rather loseth about the world to come. – The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3 by John Bunyan
  19. Thus for a long moment he held her to his heart with never a word. – The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
  20. Thus addressed, he offered her his arm soberly enough. – Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
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